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Budget. $1.5 million [ 1 ] Box office. $22,939,805 [ 2 ] Goodbye, Columbus is a 1969 American romantic comedy-drama film starring Richard Benjamin and Ali MacGraw, directed by Larry Peerce and based on the 1959 novella of the same name by Philip Roth. The screenplay, by Arnold Schulman, won the Writers Guild of America Award.
Goodbye, Columbus: Directed by Larry Peerce. With Richard Benjamin, Ali MacGraw, Jack Klugman, Nan Martin. An intelligent graduate and working-class Army veteran has an affair and clashes with a 'nouveau riche' young woman who cares not for birth control or the use of any other precautions to avoid pregnancy.
- (2.4K)
- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Larry Peerce
- 1969-05-21
ISBN. 0-679-74826-1. OCLC. 2360171. Followed by. Letting Go. Goodbye, Columbus is a 1959 collection of fiction by the American novelist Philip Roth. The compilation includes the title novella, "Goodbye, Columbus," originally published in The Paris Review, along with five short stories. It was Roth's first book and was published by Houghton Mifflin.
- Philip Roth
- 1959
Neil Klugman works in the public library and lives in New York with his Jewish aunt, rather than in Arizona with his parents. College-girl Brenda Patimkin very much lives with her well-to-do Jewish family. The two are attracted and start seeing each other. As the relationship gets more serious, Brenda's mother gets increasingly hostile to Neil.
Nell Minow Movie Mom Rated: 3/5 Aug 20, 2003 Full Review Harvey G. Cox Tempo (National Council of Churches) Despite its flaws, some of them major ones, Goodbye, Columbus is a successful flick.
- (12)
- Larry Peerce
- PG
- Richard Benjamin
A romance blossoms between a bookish guy from humble roots and a free-spirited girl from a wealthy, upstate family. Jan 1969. Westchester, New York, USA; New York City, New York, USA. Based on the short story "Goodbye, Columbus" by Philip Roth in his. Recently discharged from the Army, and with no immediate plans for his future, college dropout ...
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A Jewish man and a Jewish woman meet, and while attracted to each other, find that their worlds are very different. She is the archetypal Jewish American Princess — very emotionally involved with her parents' world and the world they have created for her, while he is much less dependent on his family. They begin an affair which brings more differences to the surface.
