Brighton Beach Memoirs [DVD] [1986] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]

Great movie

I used to watch this with my mom as a kid. Gave you some insight of what the old days living in to 1900’s was.

Combined families and their funny problems and quirks, humorous situations, and memories of shortages and conserving to make ends meet. Teen comming of age problems and Eugenes handling of them. All these make a very funny and entertaining movie. I think all would enjoy this very personal look at the way people lived near the end of the depression and early prewar 40s and how they coped with situations in their lives that arose. It is similar to the movie, Woody Allens, Radio Days. If you like family situation comedy, you will like this movie.

One of my favorite movies...I could watch it again and again and am glad I will be able to do so...funny storyline (Neil Simons adolesence???)...great acting, just funny, funny, funny...

Funny, wise, ironic and fabulous film!

Sorry, I have not much more to say. Great Neil Simon play and funny movie. A favorite when I was a teen and my kids enjoyed it too.

I bought this as the videos take up to much space. Every time I watch it, I find something new that I did not notice before

Back in the day I taped this off HBO and our family watched it over and over. Funny and heartwarming. This was Jonathan Silvermans debut and he is great as the teenage Jewish kid growing up in Brooklyn in the years before WWII. The family deals with their personal conflicts and social issues, but there isnt anything preachy about the message. The ensemble cast turns in a wonderful performance and the writing is, well, Neil Simon. Translated beautifully on the big screen.

fun watch. Offers a fine perspective without burning my feet to get there.

The film is a well made version of the hit Broadway play, but it somehow loses the potency of seeing the play live on stage. It is difficult to pinpoint why this is, for the cast is excellent and much of the humor comes through, but the serious plight of the family struggling through the ills of the Great Depression fail to register as they did on stage.