
"Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune" at BMCA
Cramped Manhattan walk-up apartment drama where a terse waitress wakes beside a compulsive, loquacious short-order cook; their talkative, romantic first encounter alternates between sharp comic banter and her quiet longing for TV and ice cream.
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