Continuity mistake: When the pool hustler, Jason Alexander, lights his cigarette, the match goes out before it touches the cigarette yet he still takes a drag as if it were lit.
Brighton Beach Memoirs (1986)
Directed by: Gene Saks
Starring: Blythe Danner, Jonathan Silverman, Stacey Glick, Lisa Waltz
Genres: Comedy
Trivia: A very young Jason Alexander AKA George Costanza from Seinfeld is one of the pool players that hustles Eugene's brother in the pool hall. He is credited as Pool Player 1.
Trivia: The main character, Eugene Morris Jerome, is also the main character's name in Biloxi Blues. Both characters also keep journals of their everyday lives.
Stanley: Jesus, how horny can you get?
Eugene: I don't know. What's the highest score?
Stanley: I got fired today.
Eugene: Fired? You mean for good?
Stanley: You don't get fired temporarily. It's a permanent lifetime firing.
Eugene: Liver and cabbage - the Jewish mediaeval torture! My friend Marty Gregori, an A student in Science, told me that cooked cabbage can be smelled further than sound travelling for seven minutes.
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