- Next Stop, Greenwich Village
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Next Stop, Greenwich Village Directed by Paul Mazursky Produced by Paul Mazursky
Anthony RayWritten by Paul Mazursky Starring Lenny Baker
Shelley Winters
Ellen Greene
Lois Smith
Christopher WalkenMusic by Bill Conti
Dave Brubeck QuartetCinematography Arthur J. Ornitz Editing by Richard Halsey Distributed by 20th Century Fox Release date(s) February 4, 1976 Running time 111 min. Country United States Language English Next Stop, Greenwich Village is a 1976 romantic comedy drama film, set in the early 1950s, written and directed by Paul Mazursky, featuring, amongst others, Lenny Baker, Shelley Winters, Ellen Greene, Lois Smith, and Christopher Walken. The film was generally well received by critics. Film review aggregate website Rotten Tomatoes gave the film a "fresh" score of 100% based on 10 reviews. Filmmaker Mazursky had made his acting debut in Stanley Kubrick's 1953 film Fear and Desire (shot in New York) and Next Stop, Greenwich Village is a semiautobiographical account of Mazursky's early life as an actor in that city. The film was entered into the 1976 Cannes Film Festival.[1]
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Plot
The film takes place in 1953. Larry Lipinsky is a young Jewish boy from Brooklyn, New York, who has dreams of stardom. He moves to Greenwich Village, much to the chagrin of his extremely overprotective mother. Larry ends up hanging out with an eccentric bunch of characters while waiting for his big break. He has group of tight-knit friends, which includes a wacky girl named Connie; Anita, an emotionally distraught young woman who constantly contemplates suicide; Robert, a young WASP who fancies himself a poet; and Bernstein, a gay black man. All the while, he tries to maintain a stormy relationship with Sarah, his girlfriend. This band of outsiders becomes Larry's new family as he struggles as an actor and works toward a break in Hollywood.
Cast
- Lenny Baker as Larry Lapinsky
- Shelley Winters as Fay Lapinsky
- Ellen Greene as Sarah
- Lois Smith as Anita
- Christopher Walken as Robert (as Chris Walken)
- Antonio Fargas as Bernstein
- Jeff Goldblum as Clyde Baxter
- Bill Murray (uncredited) as Nick Kessler
- Stuart Pankin (uncredited) as Man at Party
- Vincent Schiavelli (uncredited) as Man at Rent Party
References
- ^ "Festival de Cannes: Next Stop, Greenwich Village". festival-cannes.com. http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/2113/year/1976.html. Retrieved 2009-05-08.
External links
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- English-language films
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