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Crossing Delancey
Isabelle's life revolves around the New York bookshop she works in and the intellectual friends of both sexes she meets there. Her grandmother remains less than impressed and decides to hire a good old-fashioned Jewish matchmaker to help Isabelle's love-life along. Enter pickle-maker Sam who immediately takes to Isabelle. She however is irritated by the whole business, at least to start with.
Joan Micklin Silver
Casts & Crew
Amy Irving
Peter Riegert
Reizl Bozyk
Jeroen Krabbé
Sylvia Miles
George Martin
John Bedford Lloyd
Claudia Silver
David Hyde Pierce
Suzzy Roche
Rosemary Harris
Faye Grant
Kathleen Wilhoite
Dolores Sutton
Amy Wright
Deborah Offner
Moishe Rosenfeld
Paula Lawrence
Christine Campbell
Reg E. Cathey
Susan Blommaert
Sam Corsi
Vickilyn Reynolds
Myra Taylor
Tudor Sherrard
Jacob Harran
Bob Levine
Mimi Bensinger
Arthur Rubin
Richard A. Frisch
Stan Page
Michael Ornstein
Susan Sandler
Tony Perez
Arthur Tracey
Stan Rubin
Debra Johanna Cole
Brad O'Hare
Freda Foh Shen
Mina Bern
Ida Harnden
Ronnie Gilbert
Kevin Rogers
Miriam Phillips
Denis Bellocq
Pat Oleszko
Lee M. Linderman
Betty Rollin
Maria Antoinette Rogers
Jayne Haynes
Susan Braudy
Quincy Long
Madge Cooper
Hugh Nissenson
Loring Eutemey
Keith Reddin
Vicki Goldberg
Lore Segal
Hendrik Hertzberg
John Patrick Shanley
Stanley Leff
Scott Sommer
Elisa London
Ruby Payne
Judith Rossner
Also Directed by Joan Micklin Silver
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