Word: kurnitz
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mean mother (Irene Worth); her 36-year-old daughter (Mercedes Ruehl), ! whom the mother has contrived to keep in a state of childish dependency; and a rebel son (Richard Dreyfuss), who has become a gangster: confine just these three most colorful members of the Kurnitz family in a small space (the apartment above Mom's candy store in Yonkers, circa 1942), and claustrophobia begins to itch at one's soul. Add a couple of lively boys, Jay and Arty (Brad Stoll and Mike Damus), forced by circumstances to live with Grandma for the worst part of a year...
...superb tragicomedy in which Neil Simon unflinchingly revisits the time in his childhood when he and his brother had to live as humbled supplicants among richer relatives (an episode more sentimentally imagined in his 1983 Brighton Beach Memoirs). In Grandma Kurnitz (Irene Worth), Simon brilliantly plumbs the sadistic soul of stoic, rugged individualism...
...superb tragicomedy in which Neil Simon unflinchingly revisits the time in his childhood when he and his brother had to live as humbled supplicants among richer relatives (an episode more sentimentally imagined in his 1983 Brighton Beach Memoirs). In Grandma Kurnitz (Irene Worth), Simon brilliantly plumbs the sadistic soul of stoic, rugged individualism...