Used People (1992)
Average Rating: 5.2/10
Reviews Counted: 13
Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 8
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Todd Graff wrote the screenplay for this eccentric romantic comedy in the spirit of Moonstruck that exchanges pasta for matzo balls. The film takes place in Queens in 1969, where Pearl Berman (Shirley MacLaine) has just arrived back from the funeral of her husband. As her dysfunctional family kvetches in the living room, the dapper Joe Meledandri (Marcello Mastroianni) arrives. It seems that Joe has admired Pearl from afar for a number of years, ever since he met her husband in a bar and
Jun 1, 1992 Wide
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Cast
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Shirley MacLaine
Pearl Berman -
Kathy Bates
Bibby -
Jessica Tandy
Freida -
Marcello Mastroianni
Joe Meledandri -
Marcia Gay Harden
Norma -
Sylvia Sidney
Becky -
Joe Pantoliano
Frank -
Matthew Branton
Swee'Pea -
Bob Dishy
Jack Berman -
Charles Cioffi
Paolo -
Louis Guss
Uncle Normy -
Helen Hanft
Aunt Ruthie -
Irving Metzman
Uncle Al -
Doris Roberts
Aunt Lonnie -
Lee Wallace
Uncle Harry -
Ida Bemardini
Aunt Louisa -
Dominic Cuzzocrea
Rabbi -
Diane D'Aquila
Rose -
Gil Filar
Mark -
Maia Filar
Rhonda -
David Gow
Bill the Jeweler -
Luba Goy
Nursing Home Staff Memb... -
Sam Hutchinson
Crying Baby -
Genevieve Langlois
French Teacher -
Jim Millan
Priest -
Janet Richardson
Carla -
Michael Ricupero
Eddie -
Rosario Russo
Theresa -
Stuart Stone
Cousin Stevie -
Emma Tammi
Young Bibby -
Jeremy Trancz
Cousin Matthew -
Asia Vieira
Young Norma -
Stephanie Voves
Girl at Wedding -
Philip Williams
Vic -
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All Critics (19) | Top Critics (7) | Fresh (5) | Rotten (8)
A soap opera with suds, this meller gives a bad name to the woman's picture in its story of a Jewish widow-matriarch and her dysfunctional family (mom, two problematic daughters), thrown off its shaken balance when Mastroianni's Italian charmer arrives
Well-observed but shapeless mainstream romantic comedy that reminds one of Moonstruck.
An old-fashioned melodrama with equal doses of laughter and tears.
Mastroianni and MacLaine are both fine, but the film is a little too cutesy for its own good.
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