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Goodbye, Columbus (1969)

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74%
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Directed by
Larry Peerce

Written by
Philip Roth, Arnold Schulman

Cast
Richard Benjamin, Ali MacGraw, Jack Klugman, Nan Martin, Michael Meyers [more]


DVD Release Date
• R1: Jun 8, 2004

MPAA Rating
PG

Running Time
1 hour, 42 minutes

Country USA

Studio Paramount, Willow Tree

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Other Titles
• Goodbye, Columbus



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 Synopses for Goodbye, Columbus (1969)
1.  This unorthodox and bittersweet comedy received an Oscar nomination for Best Screenplay based on another medium. Phillip Roth's best-selling social satire brings together Richard Benjamin and Ali MacGraw, even though they're not exactly suited for each other. Neil is a poor Bronx librarian and Brenda is a pampered Jewish princess from Westchester. Benjamin and MacGraw are superb in their film debuts as the lovers who try to cross class lines amidst kisses and her parents' stiff opposition. One of the most appealing, poignant comedies ever produced.     
58.823529411765%
(17 votes)
2.Phillip Roth's biting satire of middle-class Jewish life is brought to the screen in Larry Peerce's poignant dramedy. Richard Benjamin (who later went on to star in another Roth adaptation, PORTNOY'S COMPLAINT) makes his film debut as Neil Klugman, a poor librarian from the Bronx who falls in love with Jewish American Princess Brenda Patimkin (Ali MacGraw, also making her film debut). The cross-class love affair displeases Brenda's well-to-do Westchester family and Neil soon finds himself plunged into a maelstrom of class snobbery and elitism that threatens to overwhelm the relationship.   
56.470588235294%
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3.

Philip Roth's novel of Jewish identity and assimilation in the suburbs of New York gets a spirited comic reading in this 1969 film, which marked the acting debut of model Ali McGraw (and who thought that was a good idea?). Actually, she's pretty good as the Jewish princess whose father has made a fortune in plumbing supplies. Richard Benjamin, who went on to become an odd sex symbol of the '70s, had just the right comic twist as the young man who can't overcome McGraw's middle-class morality with his sense of passion and romance. Jack Klugman is outstanding as her hard-driving and unyieldding father. A touchstone film. --Marshall Fine 		  
60%
(15 votes)


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