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Goodbye, Columbus

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Goodbye, Columbus (1969)

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Reviews Counted:9

Fresh:9

Rotten:0

Average Rating:7.1/10

Runtime: 1 hr 45 mins

Genre: Comedies

Synopsis: 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,... 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. [More]

Starring: Richard Benjamin, Ali MacGraw, Jack Klugman, Nan Martin

Starring: Richard Benjamin, Ali MacGraw, Jack Klugman, Nan Martin, Michael Meyers, Lori Shelle, Monroe Arnold, Royce Wallace, Sylvie Straus

Director: Larry Peerce

Director: Larry Peerce
Screenwriter: Arnold Schulman
Producer: Stanley R. Jaffe
Composer: Charles Fox

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Perhaps the most successful of the three Philip Roth adaptations on the big screen.

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Derek Adams
Derek Adams
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Dated adult fare from 1969 with Benjamin and MacGraw.

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Steve Crum
Steve Crum
Dispatch-Tribune Newspapers

This well-observed comedy knows the American Jewish bourgeois scene well.

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06/28/05
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Philip Martin
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A summertime love story tinged with dark humor.

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Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Spirituality and Practice

Nobody ever talks about the underrated Goodbye, Columbus, but they should.

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