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'''''Lost in Yonkers''''' is a 1993 American film adaptation of [[Neil Simon]]'s 1991 [[Pulitzer Prize]]-winning [[Lost in Yonkers|play of the same name]], directed by [[Martha Coolidge]]. It stars [[Irene Worth]], [[Mercedes Ruehl]], and [[Richard Dreyfuss]]. It was the first theatrical feature film to be edited on [[Avid Media Composer]]. It was the last film to use the 1981–1993 Columbia Pictures logo.
==Plot==
In 1942, following the death of their mother, 15-year-old Jay Kurnitz and his 13-year-old brother Arty move from [[the Bronx]] to [[Yonkers, New York|Yonkers]] to live temporarily with their strict, stern Grandma Kurnitz and her daughter Aunt Bella, so that their father Eddie can take a traveling sales job and pay off his late wife's medical debt. Grandma's harsh upbringing of her own children has estranged all of them but Bella, who has the mind and emotions of a child despite being in her
Jay and Arty do not enjoy living under Grandma's strict rules. Upon learning from Bella that Grandma has hidden $15,000 somewhere in the house and attached candy store, the boys try to find it so they can pay off their father's debt and he can return home. Meanwhile, the boys' Uncle Louie, a mobster, returns to his mother's house to hide from another mobster, Hollywood Harry, who is stalking him hoping to get what Louie has in a black bag. Louie responded to Grandma's harsh upbringing by becoming tough and independent, and starting a life of thievery and crime at a young age. Louie encourages the boys to have similar "moxie", but also reveals to them that Grandma herself was traumatized at age 12, when she saw police kill her father and was herself permanently disabled in the ensuing riot. As a result, Grandma believes people must be "like steel" in order to simply survive.
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