Brighton Beach memoirs

[@robertdubs9466]

In both Brighton Beach Memoirs and Lost in Yonkers, the father (Jack/Eddie) has heart problems, the aunt (Blanche/Eddie) is interested in a man who has some issues but it doesn't pan out, there is worldly older brother (Stanley/Jay) and a naive younger brother (Eugene/Arty)

[@samanthab1923]

Woody Allen’s Radio Days was better.

[@johnnyk8269]

When I was a kid I went to the drive-in to see Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome. I remember seeing a preview about a guy saying something about seeing a naked girl while eating ice-cream. I have been looking for the movie for 30 years with just those words to go by. Today I finally found out it was called Brighton Beach Memoirs. Thank you so much for sharing this. I can finally see what I've been searching for for 30 years.

[@donniedarko1345]

Glad you found this gem! I too have been looking for a movie for about 30 years. When I was 10 years old, we rented some b-horror movie for a sleep over party about some town that turns into Hell once a year. There was a rain storm followed by a parade of demons. I know, cheesy, but I've been searching for it for years. Still no luck!

[@sjjlemon7454]

Johnny K what part is it in

[@sjjlemon7454]

Johnny K and are u talking about the right movie?

[@pandroidigital]

And I remember the line about having a baby with nine heads. The only line I could remember. I Googled it and it brought me here :)

[@wesleyjohndelaney106]

Haha good story I'm glad you finally saw it

[@shanee7511]

I was in my teens when this became one of my favorite movies. I am much older now and it still stands the test of time.

[@tcheseborough1634]

I love Jonathan silverman performance in this movie. He nailed it.

[@juliette2729]

I saw this movie years ago + it has always been a favorite. Eugene part he played was hilarious!

[@01Eldar]

William Hurt totally stole Jon's Oscar that year. IMO

[@jeffkiper8199]

I can't believe you were able to upload this movie without KZbin deleting it. Thanks for doing so. This is one of my very favorite period pieces. An excellent film!

[@craigsmith157]

I know and especially without having the picture zoomed in with their heads cut off and their voices sped up making them sound like the Chipmunks. Lol.

[@InfinityFilms0]

It's a play, not a movie...

[@jennrockefeller8991]

@@InfinityFilms0 It was a play first, that's true. But this....is the movie of it.

[@StrongnBeautiful]

I guess nobody cares 😊

[@professorroundbottom438]

Seven years later, it's STILL here! 😊

[@Slaggers15]

One of the best post 1940’s movies ever made… Blythe Danner and Jonathan Silverman are superb!

[@craigsmith157]

I so love this movie. Loved it since I was 15 when I first watched it in 1986. I've been infatuated with the 1930s ever since. Thank you for posting.

[@alycewarr5332]

This makes me miss my dad and brother. And others. I love watching it.

[@OlafProt]

I'll have to sit and watch this. I came to it just today via a comment I saw about Woody Allen's unsurpassable Radio Days.

[@dovrose5155]

How did you like this movie?

[@pb4595]

May I ask what comment? Both movies have many similarities. Was Radio Days inspired by Brighton Beach in a way or another?

[@OlafProt]

@@pb4595 I was just having a look trying to find the comment and i cant find it, So I dont know which influenced which or if at all!

[@JusttoTalk-o7j]

To whoever posted this, you are awesome! This was my favorite as a kid. I love how it captures life in 1930s Brooklyn.

[@jamespatterson5680]

"What if your father came home and I was dead on the kitchen floor?" "I'd say don't go into the kitchen, pop"

[@katherinedorsey1226]

😃😃

[@anau.4430]

Nancy Nancy ha litterally😅

[@NMAAVA]

"When I grow up that's all I'll be trained to do! Go to the store!!" I can relate!!! haha! :D

[@MrJamieMurph4141969]

Honestly, Kate seems to act more like she’s Eugene’s BOSS, than his mother, for God’s sake-constantly sending him on errands and having him do household chores-tasks she’s perfectly capable of doing herself. But no, part of her motive for doing this, making Eugene “the workhorse,” it’s because it was how she was raised to be by her own mother, as we learn during her falling out with Blanche later on. This is also even her way of taking her letdowns out on Eugene, as we see when his father takes sick and thus Kate and Jack are forced to miss his annual company affair (which to Kate is a big deal because it makes her feel beautiful and like someone special; we also get some vague hints that she had grown up feeling “deprived,”; in fact this is something else she tells Blanche during their argument: “How many dresses was I forced to forgo all for your sake, just so you could look like somebody special? I was the workhorse; you were the pretty one!”) And so when Eugene is making noise in the street playing hockey, right at the height of his moms foul mood, she steamrollers him big time as she sends him on yet another errand:”If you get run over, don’t come crying to me!” Honestly, if either of my parents had said anything like that to me, I’d tell them we were finished, unless they apologized for going too far. It’s even plain Eugene is huffing in indignation at his mother’s uncalled for rudeness as he skates away and breaks the fourth wall by saying, “If I told her I’d just lost both my hands in an accident, she’d say “Go upstairs and wash your face with your feet.” What a bitch of a mother. Makes you wonder if Eugene by now was believing in the urban legend that maybe this is not his real mother, that perhaps his real mother “left him in a basket on the Jeromes’ doorstep, and is probably out there somewhere as some beautiful, kind rich Princess who’s ever ready to reclaim him now. Heck, I even read the script of the play versions once and later on when Stanley steals away to join the army and Kate says,”Aw, he’s just walking around town, he’ll come home when it gets cold out,” taking the news so lightly, seeming to imply that she doesn’t care if Stanley comes back or not. is when it occurs to Eugene that maybe he and Stanley were adopted. Well, with such a harridan of a mother, that does sound logical, as much as the urban legend about being left on the doorstep.

[@markcraven8386]

​@@NMAAVAI wanted to cut my wrist but the liver had worn down the knives.

[@dfa3366]

Years ago on a visit to NYC I took the subway to visit Brighton Beach. Only because of this movie. It’s basically very close to Coney Island boardwalk

[@ryanthec]

Such a great movie. Met the actor that played Stanley and recognized him from this. He was super cool.

[@gterrymed]

"Sleep with your cousin???? You'll have kids with 9 heads!" 😆 🤣 😂 😹

[@cciccone61]

I loved this movie when I saw it on HBO in the late 80’s and I still love it! Thanks for posting

[@wesleyjohndelaney106]

I had this tapped on vhs for most of my childhood. The nostalgia is through the roof right now haha thanks for uploading this

[@Frogchannelgaming]

Among My late mother's favorite, God bless her

[@carolynkingsley4421]

Neil Simon was unsurpassed. I love almost everything he did. This is one of his best.

[@jparker59able]

I watch this movie every so often. It never gets old.

[@vitaminK1121]

I loved this movie when I was a kid! I saw it so many times--I even on occasion still break out in the opening song, which after I all my viewings as a child I learned by heart (at least the parts that are heard in the movie).

[@lauriemakin1380]

How can you not love this movie my gosh it's such a good movie I have watched this show so many times I love it

[@AnonymousAccount514]

loved this movie as a kid....love it even more as a man

[@Cjga1114]

Man this flic is classic ! I grew up in the Bronx in a Jewish neighborhood while we were Italian and Irish !! Classic

[@dovrose5155]

That's NYC. I'm Jewish, Irish and Italian mixed in one person LOL with a little German and Dutch. My half-sister is half Puerto Rican. These are the cultures that make up our city. Polish and Scandinavian, also

[@marshallballantine-jones3819]

I played Eugene in a stage production of this in 1990! Great memories thanks

[@rockyd57]

Thanks Erik for downloading this movie and how we can watch it for free... usually you have to pay to watch it... Great Movie

[@carolynek1875]

great movie erik ,,,i grew up on this movie too ,,,family values were so different back then ,,nice to remember going down to the neighborhood corner store ,not afraid to walk down your streets at night,,,great memories,,simple fun,,,

[@loretta_3843]

What a charming film. Simon is a great writer. As someone who's not wealthy or influential, you never think how your life and family can be interesting or teach someone something. You're too busy living it and trying to be something else!

[@julieann4616]

Omg I can’t believe I found this. This is the cutest movie ever!!!

[@danielburns6634]

Love all the performances. B. Danner is superb!

[@shannonknightsaxon199]

One of my favorite movies! I've lost count how many times I've seen this gem. Thank you so much for posting! :)

[@rosannacellini2158]

I love this movie based on Neil Simon's memoirs! Love a younger Jonathan Silverman, he reminds me of a young Jerry Lewis, he's so comical in this film Lol. Great actors and great story telling, with situations that can make you laugh and touch your heart. Thanks for the upload! 😊👍👍

[@rockyd57]

Johnathan Silverman is good in Weekend at Bernies...

[@suzettescott400]

This is one of my favorite movies. Thank you.

[@brianschwartz5298]

You're welcome.

[@TheMabes69]

"It's called puberty...don't you read books?!!" "Yeah, the Count of Monte Cristo!!!" LOL love this movie thanks for posting!

[@pinkpandas4ever130]

“The whole world wacks off” lol funniest line ever said in a serious manner.

[@satisfyingthings4u182]

In the broadway version (the one I did in community theater) it was the citadel by AJ Cronin

[@keitholiver9859]

I love it too good acting Neil Simon rocks

[@jasanders5877]

Nasty person you are, HOW MANY books are out there, millions and millions 😂😂😂😢😮

[@burpreynolds3250]

I love this movie. Thanks,

[@johncoontas7212]

At 1:00:00, it's nice to see that a son cares how his father feels about him. That he wants to do the right thing and that his father is proud of him. Probably not too many sons who think that way today.

[@tommya]

My favorite moment in the film. Bob Dishy is fantastic.

[@JMarieCAlove]

Well they are acting but there are sons who do care and appreciate how their father's feel very much and vice versa. Unfortunately there are father's out there that don't always care or appreciate their sons, too.

[@milesgillespie6665]

Ideally, yes. This movie is "semi-autobiographical". You should read how Neil Simon's father played a role in his upbringing. There were times where Neil and his older brother had to live with relatives due to their father's abandonment. I think you are entirely wrong: most sons seek their father's approval; sadly, fathers have taken a back seat when it comes to rearing their own children. It's more about: "And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive them that trespass against us". Maybe try and see 1:39:58. Let's have more of an egalitarian society and less of a patriarchal one.

[@OswaldoGoite]

I've been looking this movie for ages!!! I just sit and enjoyed it again like the first time I saw it, like twenty some years ago... Thanks for sharing!

[@WishYouWereHere7572]

I just watched Biloxi Blues and now I'm here. I love this movie :)

[@nataliechild9163]

One of the greatest adapted movie EVER!! Perfect cast gives a brilliant historical performance of the time. Love, love, ❤ this classic film adaptation of a Neil Simon screenplay. Should be on everyone’s top 25 list imho!

[@sithlord687]

yes great movie. I grew up on this movie

[@juliacosmo8840]

Nice quality. In a lot of the movies the voices are sped up. This movies great!

[@colette9433]

Is this movie the same as the play?

[@adeladevere2013]

One of my old time favorite movies, thank you for posting!

[@stevelovessialetsdance5966]

Great movie have not seen it in years . Reminds me of Christmas story..

[@srmichel417]

Neil Simon and Jean Shepherd were two of the best, making stories from their memories of growing up. Both wrote adult memoirs too, but to hear Shepherd's, have to check out his radio show clips.

[@jeffallyn3417]

Neil Simon is one of my all time favourites! Some of the lines in this movie are EPIC! "...if they cut off my ears, I would still hear her through my nose..." LMAO

[@milagromelendez4449]

Thank you so much, I really love this movie. That's what I call family.

[@user-qr9uh1fd8g]

I had those same skates in the 70s , us two sisters. Blythe Danner is so beautiful ❤️ and very blessed with talent

[@trh1493]

ha peoples opinions are always different,,, Blythe always looked like Minnie Mouse but her daughter is pretty

[@user-qr9uh1fd8g]

@@trh1493 they are both very beautiful ladies and really good actresses

[@u.s.militia7682]

“The whole world wacks off.” “President Roosevelt too?” Great movie. Thanks for posting this.

[@elevendebraeleven2]

Thank you!! I love this movie!! I've watched it so many times over the years & never get tired of it...& it always makes me laugh like crazy. Another great movie is Lost in Yonkers.

[@brianschwartz5298]

my son is a yogi in yonkers

[@jessicasherwood4943]

Love the way Eugene and his Mother have such a funny back and forth

[@robertwalker7010]

Reminds me of how my mother would always send me to the store 2 3 times a day.

[@PeaceIsYeshua]

@@robertwalker7010 How cute! We’re you able to walk to the store also? Eugene always seemed to be having fun on those errands even if he didn’t want to go. 😆

[@juliacosmo4]

Qq

[@cynthialyman2636]

Thanks so much for the clear quality upload. Great film; a real pleasure to view it again.

[@MrRichna]

Cynthia Lyman Qaeda's

[@brianschwartz5298]

@@MrRichna i like eating at qdoba too :)

[@reginaphalange7959]

This is one of my all-times faves! Thank you!

[@dfa3366]

Eugene to Stanley as he enters the kitchen...."shhhhh...the cake is sleeping".

[@MrJamieMurph4141969]

I’ve always taken that as his way of poking fun at his mom for worrying so much about the cake that even the slightest noise will cause it to fall.

[@sydneyc.6714]

Hilarious movie. Neil Simon was so talented.

[@tonyarceneaux286]

He also did the odd couple on Broadway and TV.

[@thomasinebennett9453]

❤😂😂 I absolutely love this movie it makes me feel so happy I literally watch it everyday at work well listen to it while I’m at work lol I know all the lines I also have it on dvd thanks for posting it

[@hajiranaeem6509]

I'm only watching this movie because it was filmed in my hometown where I grew up Brighton Beach and I want to see how it looked like in the 80's

[@yomtobbillyanteby9808]

It was filmed in Astoria Queens

[@erinmoore5964]

I've loved this movie for years -- Thank you for posting!

[@sithlord687]

I also wish I was in a time more like that to. family values and overall respect and values seems so much better back then up to about the 60's.

[@chetyoubetya8565]

Oh stop.1937 was the start of Millions of people being killed or marched into death camps.A simpler time nonsense.Everything was hidden and never talked about.Child abuse,Rape teen pregnancy they were all there just all hidden.Times change people never do..

[@superso]

lol I remember a couple of old timer Polish and German brooklynites telling me about how they were raised by their married aunts, uncles, etc b/c teen pregnancies to unwed mothers weren't acceptable back then. People never change.

[@cynthialyman2636]

Happened to me as late as 1960: given up for legal adoption at three weeks old and raised by a great aunt 45 years older than me. But she was the best, lemme tell you.

[@brianschwartz5298]

i was born four years before the cuyahoga river fire and i have an extra nipple LOL

[@שולמיתרוש]

100%

[@yomtobbillyanteby9808]

Real Brooklyn. Love it.

[@michaelmirraandmarc]

Thanks for sharing this. I have the dvd, but it's nice to watch on here. I remember when they filmed certain scenes of this movie in my old neighborhood--Ridgewood, Queens--nYc. The scenes of them by the train station were filmed on Seneca Avenue & Palmetto Street. I just thought that I'd share that--in case you didn't already know that. Thanks again.⚡😃⚡

[@ankiking]

Thanks! I know that spot!

[@nathanrusso8047]

Seeing this was like watching my life. Took my dad to see it, he was hysterical. He asked who filmed us. Wonderful writing

[@missyglittervlogs3543]

I remember this movie! I looked all over KZbin for it! So happy I found it!! ❤️❤️❤️

[@NevadaBoss]

RIP Doc...one of America's all time great playwrights...

[@kevinbutler1955NYC]

I was lucky enough to meet Mr.Simon in NYC..years ago..he was and always will be..one of our best play writers.

[@ginacarrasco5047]

One of my favorite movies ever! Thank you.

[@kresivarivkah612]

I love in. Brighton Beach! I saw this many years ago and now live in this beautiful area by the Ocean!

[@allanpeterson3358]

Thanks for sharing this great 👍 movie!

[@deanpipe8329]

I first saw this in the 1980z I still remember it like it was yesterday the makings of a weekend at bernies actor

[@katrinamaniscalco6821]

One of my parents favorites, and now one of my ultimate favorites!!!! Story about life and growing up. Now that my momma has passed away I watch it and think of her warmly.❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻

[@kanokadafi]

Sucha a classic, this was always on Tv when I stayed home sick from school. thanks for uploading.

[@donniedarko1345]

quote this movie to this day. So many great lines! This is a classic!

[@katherinedorsey1226]

Indeed. " I can't deal with boats that haven't landed yet." 😂😂😂 I always say this when I can't deal with a problem that is on the horizon. ☺

[@MrJamieMurph4141969]

And how about the dialogue between Stanley and Eugene in their room when Stanley catches Eugene spying on Mrs. Lasky, their next door neighbor as she’s undressing:Stan:”What are you doing?” Eugene:”Astronomy, I have to bring in a report tomorrow(as he’s watching her through a telescope). Stan:”Let me know when she gets to the Milky Way!” (I would have said, let me know when she gets to the Big Dipper, I’m even chuckling as I type this.) Anyway, Eugene couldn’t get away with those silly corny jokes of his; Stanley knew him too well, how big he was into naked women(and sex.)

[@MrJamieMurph4141969]

Katherine Dorsey You mean a problem that’s not (yet) on the horizon.

[@dayzofrust9985]

109 times 😂😂😂

[@donniedarko1345]

@@dayzofrust9985 What's this, what's this? Isn't it a roller skate? How many times Have I asked you not leave your things around the house?....."a hundred and nine times"

[@wubranch1]

Kate was such a great Mom, had her hang ups, but held that family together.

[@brianschwartz5298]

her cans sure were hung up L O L

[@dovrose5155]

Disagree. She was abusive. No wonder why Stanley wanted to enlist.

[@MrJamieMurph4141969]

Yes, I too disagree; she WAS abusive. Her treatment of Eugene when he’s playing street hockey(OK, even if his ill father needs some peace and quiet so he can rest and get better) but still, her rudeness then to her OWN SON is especially uncalled for. A slight alteration for that scene could have been:(despite Jack being sick and needing rest)-Jack:”For God’s sake, Kate, stop being so rough on Eugene all the time! Honestly, sometimes you behave as if you’re his BOSS, constantly treating him like a messenger and a servant! You’re his MOTHER, for Pete’s sake, not his boss!”

[@dfa3366]

Love this movie. Another very good similar movie by Neil Simon is Lost in Yonkers.

[@kathydorsey1467]

Oh, one of my favorites, thank you so very much!!

[@janettebuckley4170]

One of my favorites! Thanks for this.

[@eddiewhaler1]

"I was the Work Horse... You were the pretty one"... Classic Love that Line. Bestmovie ever about WW 2 and then the the depression with Auntie Mame ONLY with Rosalind Russel Thank You Erik. Always loved this movie.

[@MrJamieMurph4141969]

Just by hearing Kate say that, we get some vague hints as to how she was raised by her own mother and even how her own mother was towards her-lacked in love towards Kate and treated her like some kind of messenger and servant. And now Kate’s been treating Eugene as such, as I said in a previous comment. Like mother like daughter. We also get some vague hints that Kate was never truly happy about anything while growing up and so for once she would like to be somebody special(again, what she tells Blanche,”You were the pretty one,” seems to underline this, meaning Blanche always got to be somebody special, in general, while Kate never did.) So when Jack takes a heart attack, though minor, and thus he and Kate are forced to miss his company affair which comes but once a year-two things: Kate’s taking her letdown out on Eugene and the one thing she tells Jack with a note of bitterness in her voice: “Get better, take me to the affair next year! THEN I’ll be beautiful!” both indicate how truly unhappy she is, deep down inside, that she still has not had the opportunity to be “the pretty one,” unlike her sister.

[@wedovatoloco4069]

Love this movie! Classic! Thanks for the upload.

[@skylilly1]

Love this movie! And Kudos to the casting director! All these actors were placed perfectly. Blythe Danner is a natural beauty!!

[@jessiegarcia1641]

Definitely 1 of my favorites! Along with " Lost in Yonkers "! 😁

[@ForlornFreddy]

The father is my favorite character in this.

[@brianschwartz5298]

the father.....what about NORA hot cans LOL

[@reginaphalange7959]

I've always loved this movie. Thank you!

[@uncbbfblives]

i truly love this movie! just so funny! it's in my top 10!

[@robertchandler5055]

uncbbfblives 2 Great movies that follow this timeline are Biloxi Blues then My favorite year. you could see Eugene in the leads of all 3 pictures

[@michaelmirraandmarc]

Definitely in my top 10 also.

[@SupahFans]

Jonathan Silverman's pubescent voice cracks throughout the story 😂

[@Frogchannelgaming]

Ever wish to be alive then instead of now? Even if everything we take for granted was more difficult? Life seemed to live closer to the heart back then.

[@Deeplycloseted435]

“So Stan, how are things down at Stroheim’s.” One of my 80’s faves.

[@catnapgee5357]

What a fantastic movie .. pure quality

[@gilbertrivera1319]

What a trip I just looked this up not but a few moments ago. And went to look for it in here, and long behold I found it... Great movie 👍👌

[@cynthialyman2636]

sorry, there was a sense of strong community and family values, which fortunately she passed onto me. Consequently l grew up out of step with many of my contemporaries, but that was fine by me. Wouldn't trade my upbringing by a fantastic family from this era for anything. Thanks.

[@annabrown7302]

THANK YOU TUBE FOR THIS ❤MOVIE

[@sparrowgael]

This is the first time I've seen this. I watched Biloxi Blues and found there was both a prequel and a sequel. This is wonderful!

[@stephanieb2484]

Loved Lost in Yonkers but wasn't so crazy about Biloxi Blues.... love Neil Simon though.

[@sha11235]

This is the first in a trilogy about Eugene. Biloxi Blues was next and then Broadway Bound.

[@rockyd57]

First time watching this movie I got hooked... always trying to find it on movie apps but I can't...and of all places I find it on KZbin...go figure...

[@endermangaming712]

11:10 "it isn't a Jewish house it was built by Italians" mood

[@sithlord687]

glad you like it. I try uploading movies and it rejects them. I got lucky with this one. yes I love this movie as well. I grew up with it. I live the sarcasm between Eugene and his mother

[@jeffkiper8199]

+Erik Ziegler , Blythe Danner is fantastic in this movie, as is Jonathan Silverman and the playful banter between the two of them. Actually, the whole cast is just so good. The film warms your heart. For me personally, the 1930's are a time that I would have loved to have been a young adult or a teenager, despite the depression during that decade. The film creates a wonderful romanticized image of life during that time. I can't say enough good things about this film.

[@jewgirl952]

+Erik Ziegler KZbin is getting pretty bad about it these days and you can't go to The Pirate Bay without damaging your computer anymore.

[@jeffkiper8199]

+Donna Manning Trust me, try Kickass torrents. kat.cr. They're a legitimate site.

[@cacampbell3654]

+Jeff Kiper: Thanks for mentioning the decade! Was enjoying the music as the opening credits were rolling and was curious about the precise era. 👍

[@jeffkiper8199]

You're welcome. Great film!

[@barone1865]

"The whole world wacks off" -Brighton Beach Memoirs

[@2425eryy]

I live in Sheepshead Bay. Just north of Brighton Beach.

[@lmb3678]

This is such a great movie. I remember going to the movies to see it. I think the cookie part is my fav. That and when Eugene is eating liver. Lol.

[@geebee3256]

Sometimes I say to someone “ENID ENID ENID” and I laugh and NO ONE has any idea what I’m talking about…..😂

[@MG-cd9ek]

Reading all the amazing posts! Can't wait to watch this. Loading now. Thank you so much for the upload

[@user-sj7xv1er1u]

❤❤❤ Great Movie, Thank You

[@brianschwartz5298]

i had to poop really bad, but it went away when i saw this video on youtube...so excited for brighton beach memoirs, i've been searching for this movie for 75 years...

[@tracietowner9619]

Thanks Erik, I really like this movie. Anything Neil Simon is a favorite :~).

[@freshprinceofelpaso]

I read the play it's great but the movie is fantastic Thanks!!!

[@DarleneHarris-s6h]

Such a great movie!!!💖💕

[@sithlord687]

your welcome. I agree. good traditional values