Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York

Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York
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Directed by	Sidney J. Furie
Produced by	Harry Korshak
Screenplay by	Kenny Solms
Based on	Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York by Gail Parent
Starring	Roy Scheider Jeannie Berlin Rebecca Dianna Smith
Music by	Michel Legrand
Cinematography	Donald M. Morgan
Edited by	Argyle Nelson Jr.
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release dates	May 16, 1975 (1975-05-16) (USA)
Running time	113 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York is a 1975 film directed by Sidney J. Furie. The film was co-written by Kenny Solms and Gail Parent, and based on her novel. The film was shot on location in New York City.

Tagline

"Sheila Levine is every single girl who has had to attend her younger sister's wedding."

Plot

Painfully shy Sheila Levine moves from Pennsylvania to New York City where she shares an apartment with an extroverted, socially active roommate. When Sheila goes to a nightclub with her roommate, she meets Sam, a doctor who is looking for a one-night stand. She is very attracted to Sam, but he is interested in her vivacious roommate. Sheila goes back to Pennsylvania for a while and then returns to New York City with the intent of winning Sam over, but finds that he and her roommate are engaged.

Cast

Actor	Role
Jeannie Berlin	Sheila Levine
Roy Scheider	Sam Stoneman
Rebecca Dianna Smith	Kate
Janet Brandt	Bernice
Sid Melton	Mannie
Charles Woolf	Wally
Leda Rogers	Agatha
Jack Bernardi	Uncle Herm

Critical reception

Vincent Canby of The New York Times did not care for the film although he liked the novel on which the film was based:

Something disastrous happened to the heroine of Gail Parent's funny novel, Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York, on her way to the silver screen... This Sheila is so aggressively naive and dumb, when it suits the purposes of the comedy, that it's quite impossible to believe that even her family could stand her, to say nothing of the Mr. Right with whom the film provides her.

Despite an advertising campaign featuring a poster with the quote "Jeannie Berlin triumphs!" from critic, the film was given a BOMB rating in Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide, panned with the sentence, "Dead is right."

Soundtrack

• "Love Me or Love People" - Composed by Michel LeGrand

See also

• List of American films of 1975

External links

• Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York at IMDb
• Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York at AllMovie