Title: Brighton Beach Memoirs (film)
Content:  Brighton Beach Memoirs is a 1986 American comedy film directed by Gene Saks, written by Neil Simon, and starring Jonathan Silverman and Blythe Danner. Set in the Brighton Beach section of Brooklyn, New York during The Great Depression, this coming-of-age comedy focuses on Eugene Jerome, a Polish-Jewish American teenager who experiences puberty, sexual awakening, and a search for identity as he tries to deal with his family, including his older brother Stanley, his parents Kate and Jack, Kate's widowed sister Blanche, and her two daughters, Nora and Laurie. Simon adapted his semi-autobiographical 1982 play of the same title, the first chapter of what is known as the Eugene trilogy, followed by the adaptations Biloxi Blues and Broadway Bound. The film frequently breaks the fourth wall by having Eugene speak directly to the camera.
Title: Brighton Beach Memoirs
Content:  In 1986 the play was adapted into a movie directed by Gene Saks with the screenplay by Neil Simon. The cast featured Jonathan Silverman (Eugene), Blythe Danner (Kate), Bob Dishy (Jack), Lisa Waltz (Nora), Brian Drillinger (Stanley), Stacey Glick (Laurie), and Judith Ivey (Blanche). The film frequently breaks the fourth wall by having Eugene speak directly to the camera. Roger Ebert, in his review for the Chicago Sun-Times wrote: "The movie feels so plotted, so constructed, so written, that I found myself thinking maybe they shouldn't have filmed the final draft of the screenplay. Maybe there was an earlier draft that was a little disorganized and unpolished, but still had the jumble of life in it.... The movie was directed by Gene Saks, who directs many of Simon's plays on both the stage and the screen, and whose gift is for the theater. His plays have the breath of life; his movies feel like the official authorized version. Everything is by the numbers."
Title: Brighton Beach Memoirs
Content:  Brighton Beach Memoirs is a semi-autobiographical play by Neil Simon, the first chapter in what is known as his Eugene trilogy. It precedes Biloxi Blues and Broadway Bound.
Title: Brighton Beach Memoirs (film)
Content: Jonathan Silverman - Eugene Morris Jerome, almost 15 ; Blythe Danner - Kate Jerome, about 40: Eugene's mother, a strong Jewish matriarch ; Bob Dishy - Jacob "Jack" Jerome, about 40: Eugene's father ; Judith Ivey - Blanche Morton, 38: Eugene's widowed aunt ; Brian Drillinger - Stanley Jerome, 18½: Eugene's older brother ; Stacey Glick - Laurie Morton, 13: Eugene's younger cousin ; Lisa Waltz - Nora Morton, 16½: Eugene's beautiful older cousin 
Title: Brighton Beach Memoirs
Content: Broadway revival Brighton Beach Memoirs had a pre-Broadway engagement at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles on December 10, 1982, and following an additional pre-Broadway engagement at the Curran Theatre in San Francisco, the play premiered on Broadway at the Alvin Theatre on March 27, 1983 and transferred to the 46th Street Theatre, where it closed on May 11, 1986 after 1,299 performances and 7 previews. Directed by Gene Saks, the cast featured Matthew Broderick (Eugene Jerome), Elizabeth Franz (Kate Jerome), Peter Michael Goetz (Jack Jerome), Mandy Ingber (Laurie Morton), Željko Ivanek (Stanley Jerome), Jodi Thelen (Nora Morton) and Joyce 
Title: Brighton Beach Memoirs
Content:  Cromer, the cast featured Laurie Metcalf as Kate Jerome and Dennis Boutsikaris as Jack Jerome, with Santino Fontana as Stanley Jerome, Jessica Hecht as Blanche, Gracie Bea Lawrence as Laurie, Noah Robbins as Eugene and Alexandra Socha as Nora. The production was planned to run in repertory with Broadway Bound, which was to feature the same cast with the exception of Josh Grisetti, who was to assume the role of the "older" Eugene (played by Noah Robbins in the earlier play) and Allan Miller in the role of Ben. The two plays were produced and promoted as "The Neil Simon 
Title: Brighton Beach
Content:  Hubert Selby's novel Requiem for a Dream is set in Brighton Beach during the 1970s. ; "B for Brighton Beach" Mikhail Salita ; "Princess of Brighton" (Russian edition) Mikhail Salita ; Plays: ; Neil Simon's play Brighton Beach Memoirs (1983), which won two Tony awards in 1983, as well as its 1986 film adaptation, are both set against the backdrop of Brighton Beach during the Great Depression, in 1937. ; Television: ; A Lifetime reality TV show called Russian Dolls, documenting the lives of young Russian-Americans and a group of Brighton Beach housewives spending time in a popular Russian nightclub, Rasputin Restaurant, premiered August 11, 2011. ; Video Games: ; A fictionalized version of Brighton Beach, known as Hove Beach, is a neighborhood in the 2008 video game Grand Theft Auto IV. The neighborhood has been mentioned or appears many times in popular culture:
Title: Brighton Beach Memoirs (film)
Content:  the screen ... Overall impact is mild, but very pleasantly so." Michael Wilmington of the Los Angeles Times wrote, "'Brighton Beach Memoirs' may be one of Simon's best plays, but the film's heart seems to be beating in a plastic wrapper. There's a kind of glace over everything, a sugary show-biz coat that dulls your taste buds. Everything is bigger, brighter and broader than it should be—though remnants of that simpler, more honest story often peek through." Paul Attanasio of The Washington Post called the film "a regularly funny and sometimes affecting movie that captures, if not always successfully, the kind of back-and-forth of any ordinary family." The film holds a score of 71% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 14 reviews.
Title: Brighton Beach Memoirs (film)
Content:  out of four and noted "a general softening of the tension in the Jerome household [from the play] ... Here on film the pathos is missing, and all we are left with is jokes badly performed by a weak central character." Janet Maslin of The New York Times wrote that the play "has become a film of surprisingly gentle charms. Mr. Simon's humor is much in evidence, but it is not the film's strongest selling point. Even more effective are the sense of a place and a way of life long vanished and the care and affection with which they have been summoned up." Variety declared, "'Brighton Beach Memoirs' emerges as one of the more successful transfers of a Neil Simon play 
Title: Brighton Beach Memoirs
Content:  Despite generally positive reviews from New York critics, Brighton Beach Memoirs closed on November 1, 2009 after 9 performances and 25 previews due to weak ticket sales. Subsequently, the planned production of Broadway Bound was cancelled. The New York Times, in analyzing the revival's failure, wrote that "What went wrong with 'Brighton Beach Memoirs' is a case study in success and failure on Broadway today. There were no big stars like Jude Law in the current commercial hit 'Hamlet,' there was no marketing campaign that framed the Simon play as a can’t-miss theatrical event, and there was no wow factor 

Question: Who was the screenwriter for Brighton Beach Memoirs?
Answer: Neil Simon.
Marvin Neil Simon.