As a rich Manhattanite in Queens Logic, Jamie Lee Curtis is hot for fishmonger Joe Mantegna because he's from the other side of the river — and the wrong side of the tracks. Mantegna is equally intrigued by Curtis' pedigree. Their recipe for love — take one outer-borough boor, add one New York City sophisticate, and mix it up — echoes the class-conscious romances in these other Gotham tales:
SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER (1977)
Tony Manero (John Travolta) is king of
the Brooklyn discos, but the Manhattan life-style of dance partner
Stephanie (Karen Lynn Gorney) sets him yearning for a better life
across the bay.
WORKING GIRL (1988)
Secretary Tess McGill (Melanie Griffith)
escapes her dreary Staten Island life by nabbing a plumb job and a bigwig beau on Wall Street.
SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER ME (1987)
A married Queens cop (Tom Berenger) gets a case of penthouse envy when he's assigned to protect a Fifth Avenue socialite (Mimi Rogers) who has witnessed a murder.
CROSSING DELANCEY (1988)
In this intra-borough romance
Upper-West-Sider Izzy Grossman (Amy Irving) surrenders to the charm of a Lower-East-Side pickle merchant (Peter Riegert). It's one of the movies' few Manhattan matchups where happiness equals downward
mobility.
