Derek Winnert

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The Heartbreak Kid **** (1972, Charles Grodin, Cybill Shepherd, Jeannie Berlin. Eddie Albert) – Classic Movie Review 7220

Director Elaine May’s 1972 The Heartbreak Kid stars Charles Grodin as a New York Jewish kid named Lenny who is honeymooning in Miami with his new bride Lila (Jeannie Berlin) when he gets stung by […]

Jun, 25

Victory at Entebbe *** (1976, Helmut Berger, Linda Blair, Kirk Douglas, Helen Hayes, Anthony Hopkins, Burt Lancaster, Elizabeth Taylor) – Classic Movie Review 7060

Victory at Entebbe stars in alphabetical order Helmut Berger, Theodore Bikel, Linda Blair, Kirk Douglas, Richard Dreyfuss, Stefan Gierasch, David Groh, Julius Harris (as the Ugandan dictator General Idi Amin), Helen Hayes, Anthony Hopkins (as Israeli Prime […]

May, 16

Driving Miss Daisy **** (1989, Morgan Freeman, Jessica Tandy, Dan Aykroyd) – Classic Movie Review 7047

Director Bruce Beresford’s 1989 comedy drama is based on his own Pulitzer Prize-winning play by screen-writer Alfred Uhry and triumphed at the box office (it took $106 million in the US) and at the Academy […]

May, 13

Avalon *** (1990, Aidan Quinn, Elizabeth Perkins, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Joan Plowright, Kevin Pollak) – Classic Movie Review 6408

Writer-director Barry Levinson’s 50-year saga of a Russian-Jewish immigrant family in Baltimore is warmly acted by a strong cast, looks superb thanks to cinematographer Allen Daviau and is quite involving and entertaining. It was nominated […]

Dec, 14

Every Time We Say Goodbye ** (1986, Tom Hanks, Cristina Marsillach, Benedict Taylor) – Classic Movie Review 6179

Co-writer/ director Moshe Mizrahi’s simple, easy-going, slightly sudsy 1986 romantic movie stars Tom Hanks as David, an eager American World War Two wartime flier who joins the RAF and is recovering in Jerusalem after a leg […]

Nov, 02

Bugsy **** (1991, Warren Beatty, Annette Bening, Harvey Keitel, Ben Kingsley, Joe Mantegna, Elliott Gould) – Classic Movie Review 6060

Warren Beatty stars in director Barry Levinson’s exciting, lovingly crafted 1991 mob crime thriller Bugsy as real-life charming but psychotic Forties gangster Benjamin (‘Bugsy’) Siegel, sent by Meyer Lansky (Ben Kingsley) to control the rackets […]

Oct, 06

Crossing Delancey **** (1988, Amy Irving, Peter Riegert, Reizl Bozyk, Jeroen Krabbé, Sylvia Miles) – Classic Movie Review 5804

Amy Irving stars as Izzy, a modern single 30-something who lives alone in her smart New York apartment, works in a bookshop and has lots of female friends and a Jewish grandmother who gets the matchmaker […]

Jul, 23

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