The film takes place in Queens in 1969, where Pearl Berman has just arrived back from the
funeral of her husband. As her dysfunctional family kvetches in the living room, the dapper
Joe Meledandri 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 persuaded him to return to his wife. As Pearl is
wooed by Joe, she has to deal with her lonely, overweight daughter Bibby and her prettier
daughter Norma, who suffers from such a lack of self esteem that she assumes the personalities
of Marilyn Monroe, Jackie Kennedy, and Bonnie Parker. |
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