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Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York (1975)
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Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York (1975)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Sheila Levine is a Jewish-American princess and a native of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. An innovative, bright, but painfully introverted individual, she comes to New York City with her mother and father to take an apartment with a nightclub-hopping roommate. Persuaded to go to a nightclub one night, she meets a doctor named Sam Stoneman who is on the hunt for a one-night stand. Sheila develops an intense attraction towards Sam who seemingly is attracted to Sheila's desperately flirtatious roommate. She returns to Harrisburg for a time and comes back to win the heart of Sam only to discover that he has been conned into an engagement with her ex-roommate. Meanwhile, stalwart Sheila quickly climbs the ladder at her job as a "office-singer/typist" for a record company.
Style: touching, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sexy
Audience: girls' night
Plot: insecurity, dating, single, youth, friends, misfit, family relations, love and romance, singleness, fall in love, couples, nightclub, gays and lesbians, society, family problems, social misfits, looking for love, suburbs, urban, single parent, family in crisis, city life, gender, battle of the sexes, death in the family ...
Time: 70s, year 1975
Place: new york, germany, pennsylvania

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