Sheila Levine – an innovative, bright, but painfully introverted individual – arrives in New York City to take an apartment with a partygoing roommate. There, she experiences love and heartache in equal measure.
Acting
Jeannie Berlin's physical comedy is criminally underrated.
Writing
Gail Parent's novel adaptation bites harder than expected.
Director
Sidney J. Furie
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Jeannie Berlin is Elaine May's daughter, and this was her follow-up to her Oscar-nominated turn in The Heartbreak Kid. Nepo baby who DESERVED it.
This flopped so hard it became a cult curio, but it perfectly captures pre-Sex and the City single-girl NYC—gritty, unglamorous, and genuinely broke.
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