Broadway Bound (1992)

Directed by

Paul Bogart

Genre

comedy film

Country

United States

Runtime

2h

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 4 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two brothers in 1940s New York try to break into comedy writing while dealing with their family's personal conflicts. The story follows their efforts to sell a sketch to a radio show and the changing relationships with their parents and grandfather.

light-heartednostalgicwrygentletalkysentimentalbittersweetstage-like

What happens

Broadway Bound is a 1992 American made-for-television comedy film directed by Paul Bogart, written by Neil Simon, and starring Corey Parker and Jonathan Silverman. Simon adapted his semi-autobiographical 1986 play Broadway Bound, the third chapter in what is known as the Eugene trilogy, the first being Brighton Beach Memoirs and the second being Biloxi Blues. Silverman, who played Eugene Jerome in the original stage version of Broadway Bound and in the film adaptation of Brighton Beach Memoirs, plays Eugene's older brother Stanley in the film. Parker played Pvt. Arnold Epstein in the film adaptation of Biloxi Blues. In a 1992 interview, Simon explained that Broadway Bound was not adapted as a theatrical film like the previous two works in the trilogy for the reason that it "was too expensive for the big screen, because it required extensive outdoor period sets of New York City." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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