“Crossing Delancey,” December 15, 2017 (1988), DVD, (on the road. ) Not surprisingly, this feels more like an old play, as Susan Sandler wrote both the play and screenplay while Joan Silver directed in 1988. A very different time and place for heterosexual trysts. Isabelle Grossman (Amy Irving) arranges author readings and soirees in the village bookstore even as independent stores are going under in the face of soulless book chains (many of them are now gone too, buried under Internet sales). She aspires to acceptance by the NY literati. The males of that ilk are a narcissistic bunch, imbued with the sort of sexist power that’s been under serious discussion in recent months And it’s pretty loathsome in the film as well. Her Bubbe (Reizl Bozyk) takes matters into her own hands and engages a matchmaker to arrange a meeting with Sam the Pickle man (Peter Reigert). He’s standup and runs the family business that he inherited from his dad. He went to City College. He goes to minyan in the morning. She still wants to be in with the cool crowd. You can see where this is going. Irving is good and Reigert is ok, although his character is stiff. The script?. Well, not so much. Have a pickle, and as anyone who looks at my profile photo on FB knows, I love pickles. I was glad to learn how to get the pickle smell off my hands