Goodbye, Columbus (film)

Infobox Film
name = Goodbye, Columbus


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director = Larry Peerce
producer = Stanley R. Jaffe
writer = Philip Roth
Arnold Schulman
starring = Richard Benjamin
Ali MacGraw
Jack Klugman
music = Charles Fox
cinematography = Enrique Bravo
Gerald Hirschfeld
editing = Ralph Rosenblum
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released = 1969
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language = English
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imdb_id = 0064381|

The title story of Philip Roth's novella "Goodbye, Columbus" (1959) is the subject of the 1969 film of the same name, directed by Larry Peerce.

Plot summary

Neil Klugman (Richard Benjamin) is a highly intelligent, working class army veteran and graduate of Rutgers University who earns a living as a library clerk. He falls in love with Brenda Patimkin (Ali McGraw), a wealthy student at Radcliffe College who is at home for the summer. The consequent obstacles that they face from Brenda's family, (particularly her father portrayed by Jack Klugman) due to differences in class and assimilation into the American mainstream, create the central conflicts of the film. Morality and propriety differences related to the premarital sex and the possibilties of ill-timed pregnancies, consist of the more imposing conficts, and the ones proving impossible to resolve.

Awards

1970: Writers Guild of America Award: "Best Comedy Adapted from Another Medium".

Casting

* Britt Ekland, Natalie Wood, Jane Fonda, Sally Field, Olivia Hussey, Kitty Winn, Faye Dunaway and Barbara Parkins turned down the role of Brenda.
* Director Larry Peerce asked Sandy Duncan to star in this film, but she declined because the film had "too much nudity and sexual content".
* Lesley Ann Warren was supposed to play Brenda, but became pregnant and was replaced.
* Bette Davis and Joan Crawford turned down the role of Mrs. Ben Patimkin.
* Warren Beatty, Paul Newman and Jack Nicholson turned down the role of Neil Klugman

External links

* [http://www.jhvc.org/video_library/index.php?film_id=139 Study guide]