The Heart-Warming Story Based on Neil Simon's Award-Winning Play Fifteen-year-old Eugene Jerome (Jonathan Silverman, Weekend at Bernie's) is desperately trying to uncover life's mysteries, but his family keeps hiding the clues. Even so, he manages to keep his priorities—baseball and girls—firmly in order. Neil Simon's hilarious adaptation of his Broadway smash about growing up in Brooklyn is a wonderful, semi-autobiographical comedy with heart, wit and hysterical insights into family life and growing up just a little off-center.