An aspiring Jewish actor moves out of his parents' Brooklyn apartment to seek his fortune in the bohemian life of Greenwich Village in 1953.
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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
Director
Paul Mazursky
Tagline
"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."
Status
Released
Original Language
EN
Production
20th Century Fox
CinemaSerf
July 5, 2025
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...
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