Nokia is like the desperate home owner who is behind on mortgage, needs cash fast, finds a generous benefactor, only to discover after the mortgage has been paid that they have embraced a loan shark.

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Ben Gazzara stars as Cosmo Vitelli, the owner and impresario of a strip joint, who, as the story begins, has just got out from under the burden of a debt to a loan shark when he gambles himself into a hole again.

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The plot of "Lost in Yonkers" sounds like the premise for a second-rate sitcom: Eddie (Dominic Comperatore) gets into hot water with a loan shark, stows his two boys (Matthew Gumley and Russell Posner) with his gargoyle-like mother (Cynthia Harris) and goofy sister (Finnerty Steeves) and goes on the lam.

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Here was a sinister loan shark.

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One loan shark jailed because of a project was Kim Cornfield.

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