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Goodbye, Columbus Reviews

1969 Certificate TBC
  • Rated:
  • 30
  • from 6 members

A Jewish man and a jewish woman meet and while attracted to each other find that their worlds are very different. She is the archetypical 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 .. Read more

Starring Richard Benjamin, Ali MacGraw, Jack Klugman, Nan Martin
Director Larry Peerce
Genres Comedy

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  • Critics' reviews (2) of Goodbye, Columbus

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  • 2 stars out of 4

    An amusing and well-observed delineation of two kinds of Jewish life in New York; the story, despite its frank talk of penises and diaphragms, leaves much to be desired, and the style is post-Graduate.

    • Halliwell's Film Guide
  • A wonderfully beady-eyed adaptation of Philip Roth's novella satirising the Jewish nouveau riche and/or the American... read more on Time Out

    • Time Out
  • Critics' reviews (2)

  • 2 stars out of 4

    An amusing and well-observed delineation of two kinds of Jewish life in New York; the story, despite its frank talk of penises and diaphragms, leaves much to be desired, and the style is post-Graduate.

    • Halliwell's Film Guide
  • A wonderfully beady-eyed adaptation of Philip Roth's novella satirising the Jewish nouveau riche and/or the American... read more on Time Out

    • Time Out

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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 archetypical 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. ...

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