Next Stop, Greenwich Village
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Plot
The film takes place in 1953. Larry Lipinsky is a 22-year old Jewish man from Brownsville in Brooklyn, New York, with 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 a group of tight-knit friends, which includes a wacky girl named Connie; Anita, an emotionally distraught woman who constantly contemplates suicide; Robert, a young WASP who fancies himself a poet; and Bernstein, an African-American gay 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
Production
Filmmaker Mazursky had made his acting debut in Stanley Kubrick's 1953 film Fear and Desire, and Next Stop, Greenwich Village is a semi-autobiographical account of Mazursky's early life as an actor.
The film was entered into the 1976 Cannes Film Festival.[1]
Paul Mazursky discusses the making of this film in an interview published in Filmmakers Newsletter April, 1976, Volume 9, Number 6, pp. 30ff by Nicholas Pasquariello
Casting
This film is also notable for being Bill Murray's first film, with Murray having a few minutes of screen time. Jeff Goldblum and Christopher Walken (credited as Chris Walken) were early in their careers.
Reception
The film generally was well received by critics. Rotten Tomatoes gave the film a "fresh" score of 86% based on 21 reviews.[2]
References
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- 1976 films
- 1970s coming-of-age comedy-drama films
- 1970s romantic comedy-drama films
- 20th Century Fox films
- American coming-of-age comedy-drama films
- American romantic comedy-drama films
- Films about actors
- Films about Jews and Judaism
- Films directed by Paul Mazursky
- Films scored by Bill Conti
- Films set in 1953
- Films set in Manhattan
- Films shot in New York City
- Greenwich Village
- 1970s English-language films
- 1970s American films
- 1976 comedy-drama films
- English-language romantic comedy-drama films