Used People

1992
PG-13
1h 55m

IMDb RATING

6.1/10

1.9K

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At her husband's funeral, a Jewish mother encounters her late husband's Italian friend who secretly loved her. He had previously advised her husband against leaving home, causing tension bet... Read allAt her husband's funeral, a Jewish mother encounters her late husband's Italian friend who secretly loved her. He had previously advised her husband against leaving home, causing tension between her and her two divorced daughters.At her husband's funeral, a Jewish mother encounters her late husband's Italian friend who secretly loved her. He had previously advised her husband against leaving home, causing tension between her and her two divorced daughters.

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IMDb RATING

6.1/10

1.9K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 4 nominations

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Trivia
The film cast includes four Oscar® winners: Jessica Tandy, Kathy Bates,Shirley MacLaine and Marcia Gay Harden; and two Oscar nominees: Sylvia Sidney and Marcello Mastroianni.

Goofs
During the scene where people are up on their rooftops as they watch TV and see the first manned landing on the moon, the moon is shown above as a full moon. In actuality, the moon was still in its first quarter and looked like a crescent slightly less than a half-moon.

Quotes
Bibby Berman: All class, my sister. She brought a date to her own father's funeral.

Connections
Featured in Siskel & Ebert: Forever Young/Damage/Toys/Scent of a Woman/Used People (1992)

Soundtracks
The Sky Fell Down
Performed by Frank Sinatra with Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra

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If this is not (intentionally or otherwise) a pilot for a TV series, what is it? Episodic, altogether lacking in unity and narrative flow, there is enough caricature and stereotyping to offend the sensibilities of most Jewish- and Italian-Americans. To understand the characters' motivations, a viewer must look beyond what is presented here - i.e., must imagine why these characters act as they do, since the explanations are not forthcoming in the film. If you were left wondering what is going to happen next to Pearl, her daughters, her grandson, her new husband and his family - all of their situations left open-ended - you were more absorbed in this claptrap than most viewers are likely to be.

The performances are not at all bad, but then, one-dimensional characters don't present much of a challenge.