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Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman is a film critic for EW
NEIL SIMON'S LOST IN YONKERS (PG) One of Simon's ''mature'' works: We get the yelling and the hugging-the Broadwaydysfunctionalism-without the one-liners. Mercedes Ruehl, grinning like Sylvester the cat, brings every bit of warmth and charm she can to the impossible role of Bella, a 36-year-old childlike neurotic goofball (oh, but with dreams! Such dreams!) who still lives at home with her cold-as-steel Germanic mother. Playing this neo-Victorian monster, Irene Worth is so cruel and unyielding, such a beady-eyed crone, she's like Norman Bates' mother reborn as a Nazi commandant. As Uncle Louie, Richard Dreyfuss resurrects his terminal case of the cutes. He's a pain, but he's the only comic relief in this earnest slog of misery and guilt. D+
Posted May 28, 1993
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