Crossing Delancey (1988)

Set in New York City, a happily independent bookstore manager (Amy Irving) isn't looking for a relationship but she's forced to re-evaluate her desires when she catches the eye of two very different men: a self centered novelist (Jeroen Krabbe) and a Lower East Side pickle seller (Peter Riegert). Based on the play by Susan Sandler and directed by Joan Micklin Silver (CHILLY SCENES OF WINTER). An unusual romantic comedy and unabashedly Jewish at its core. Amy Irving's 80s feminist career woman doesn't need a man to fulfill her but like all of us, she is in need of another human being in her life but what she thinks she wants and what she needs aren't necessarily the same thing. Unlike most romcoms, DELANCEY seems relevant rather than the cutesy formulaic bent (often glamorous) Hollywood romcoms tend to follow. In Irving's Izzie, we see the conundrum of a contemporary thirty something forging a career with precious little time for a personal relationship and when it comes, unable to recognize the right one. With Sylvia Miles (overacting terribly), Rosemary Harris, David Hyde Pierce, John Bedford Lloyd, Amy Wright and in a scene stealing role as Irving's grandmother, Reizi Bozyk.