Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York

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Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York

PG

Released Feb 12, 1975

1h 53m

Romance

Comedy

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A spoiled young woman (Jeannie Berlin) tries to make it in New York and latches onto a guy (Roy Scheider) who tries to forget her.

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Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York is a tonally confused adaptation that drains the novel's sharp edge into a half-hearted romantic fantasy.

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John Simon

New York Magazine/Vulture

What minimal value the novel may have had is forfeited by this appalling adaption of the story.

Apr 9, 2025

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Judith Crist

New York Magazine/Vulture

The heroine, played by Jeannie Berlin, emerges as a dull klutz, a humorless whiner with bulldog determination and charm to match.

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Molly Haskell

Village Voice

Every time Furie's relentlessly dreary movie gets anywhere near a laugh, it immediately swerves and plunges into bathos.

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Frances Taylor

Newark Star-Ledger

The screenplay is trite and dull.

Aug 27, 2025

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Norman Dresser

Toledo Blade

Furie, who apparently had at least skimmed the novel but failed utterly to absorb its message, gives the film a dark, dismal look totally at varience with the admittedly feeble stabs to create a comedy romance.

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David Sterritt

Christian Science Monitor

The story gets stickier by the minute, and there are an awful lot of minutes as Sheila drags on interminably.

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Best movie I've seen all year. Okay, it's 2016, but still. Great performances all around, and don't hate me for saying this, but this is the best I've seen Roy Scheider. He's more vulnerable here than I've ever seen him before. I caught it on TCM, but if you missed it, it's on The Paramount Vault on YouTube, an awesome legal channel for watching a ton of stuff, a lot of which has never been on DVD or VHS, like this one.

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02/19/23

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Sidney J. Furie

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Jeannie Berlin

Sheila Levine

Roy Scheider

Sam Stoneman

Rebecca Dianna Smith

Kate

Janet Brandt

Bernice

Sid Melton

Manny

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Synopsis

A spoiled young woman (Jeannie Berlin) tries to make it in New York and latches onto a guy (Roy Scheider) who tries to forget her.

Director: Sidney J. Furie
Producer: Harry Korshak
Screenwriter: Gail Parent, Kenny Solms
Distributor: Paramount Pictures
Production Co: Paramount Pictures
Rating: PG
Genre: Romance, Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Feb 12, 1975, Original
Release Date (Streaming): Oct 12, 2010
Runtime: 1h 53m

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