The Kid Is Back in Town
The remake of The Heartbreak Kid favors bawdiness over sharp-edged satire
| 1:44 PM Oct 3, 2007
Cybill Shepherd and Charles Grodin
In the 1972 hit The Heartbreak Kid, screenwriter Neil Simon took the ethnic and class differences hinted at in Bruce Jay Friedman’s short story “A Change of Plan” and made them explicit. New Yorker Lenny Cantrow (Charles Grodin), a sporting-goods salesman, marries Lila (Jeannie Berlin) in a ceremony where a wineglass ...
