Greenwich Village, 1953. It was coffeehouses and high adventure, it was your first love and your best dream, it was girls who drank wine and your mother back home asking God to forgive you.
An aspiring Jewish actor moves out of his parents' Brooklyn apartment to seek his fortune in the bohemian life of Greenwich Village in 1953.
- 6.3
- 1976
- Released
- 1h 51m
Lenny Baker
Larry Lapinsky
Shelley Winters
Faye Lapinsky
Ellen Greene
Sarah Roth
Lois Smith
Anita Cunningham
Christopher Walken
Robert Fulmer
Dori Brenner
Connie
Antonio Fargas
Bernstein Chandler
Lou Jacobi
Herb
Mike Kellin
Ben Lapinsky
Michael Egan
Acting Teacher
Rashel Novikoff
Mrs. TuppermanJohn C. Becher
Casting Director
Jeff Goldblum
Clyde Baxter
Joe Spinell
Cop
Denise Galik
Ellen
Rochelle Oliver
Doctor Marsha
Sol Frieder
Mr. Elkins
Helen Hanft
Herb's Wife
John Ford Noonan
BarneyCarole Monferdini
Southern GirlGui Andrisano
Marco
Joe Madden
Old PoetRubin Levine
Street Violinist
Milton Frome
Drugstore Customer (uncredited)
Bill Murray
Nick Kessel (uncredited)
Vincent Schiavelli
Party Guest (uncredited)
Rutanya Alda
Party Guest (uncredited)
Stuart Pankin
Party Guest (uncredited)Annie Gagen
Acting Student (uncredited)
Kandice Stroh
Acting Student (uncredited)Frankie Verroca
Acting Student (uncredited)
Billie Perkins
Hippie Girl (uncredited)Filomena Spagnuolo
Old Lady on Street (uncredited)
Released
en
- #new york city
- #mother
- #girlfriend
- #jewish american
- #relationship
- #overbearing mother
- #brooklyn, new york city
- #struggling actor
- #greenwich village
- #abortion
- #1950s
- #screen test
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There were loads of these type of films made in the mid 1970s about aspiring types finally out from under their parental wing and now hitting the big city with dreams and hormones racing. Here, the quite charismatic Lenny Baker is “Larry”, a Jewish lad who thinks he could be the next Marlon Brando, or maybe Laurence Olivier - even though a local beat cop reckons he might want to change professions