Over the Brooklyn Bridge

{{Short description|1984 film by Menahem Golan}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2026}} {{Use American English|date=January 2025}} {{Infobox film | name = Over the Brooklyn Bridge | image = Over the Brooklyn Bridge film poster.jpg | alt = | caption = Theatrical release poster | native_name = | director = Menahem Golan | producer = Menahem Golan Yoram Globus | writer = Arnold Somkin | starring = Elliott Gould Margaux Hemingway Sid Caeser Burt Young Shelley Winters | music = Pino Donaggio | cinematography = Adam Greenberg | editing = Mark Goldblatt | studio = City Films | distributor = Cannon Films MGM/UA | released = {{Film date|1984|03|02}} | runtime = 106 minutes | country = United States | language = English | budget = | gross = $837,914<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=overthebrooklynbridge.htm |title=Over the Brooklyn Bridge (1983) |publisher=Box Office Mojo |access-date=2016-07-09}}</ref> }} '''''Over the Brooklyn Bridge''''' is a 1984 American romantic comedy film directed and produced by Menahem Golan, written by Arnold Somkin, and starring Elliott Gould. It had the working title of ''My Darling Shiksa'', referring to a Shiksa, a woman outside of the Jewish faith. The film depicts a Jewish man being forced to break up with his gentile girlfriend.

==Plot== Alby Sherman is a Jewish man whose father died when he was young. He and his mother run a luncheonette in Brooklyn, but Alby has negotiated the purchase of an upscale restaurant in Manhattan, a project he cannot finance on his own. He asks his wealthy Uncle Benjamin to lend him the money. His uncle imposes only one requirement: he will lend Alby the money, but only if he leaves his "shiksa" (gentile) girlfriend.

==Cast== * Elliott Gould as Alby Sherman * Margaux Hemingway as Elizabeth Anderson * Sid Caesar as Uncle Benjamin * Burt Young as Phil * Shelley Winters as Becky Sherman * Carol Kane as Cheryl * Sarah Michelle Gellar as Phil's Daughter (uncredited) * Robert Gossett as Eddie

==Production== The film was budgeted at $4 million and scheduled for six weeks. Golan completed it in five weeks, $500,000 under budget.<ref name="yule">Andrew Yule, ''Hollywood a Go-Go: An Account of the Cannon Phenomenon'', Sphere Books, 1987, p. 33, {{ISBN|9780722193891}}</ref>

==See also== * List of films featuring diabetes

==References== {{reflist}}

==External links== * {{IMDb title|0087864}} * {{TCMDb title|2487}} * {{Rotten Tomatoes|over_the_brooklyn_bridge}}

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