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Goodbye, Columbus (1969)

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Average rating: 30%
2020
1.5
from 6 members
 
Starring: Richard Benjamin, Ali MacGraw, Jack Klugman, Nan Martin, Michael Meyers
Director: Larry Peerce
Run time: 101 mins
Certificate: TBC
Genres: Comedy
Languages: English
Released: unknown

Brief synopsis of Goodbye, Columbus

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 brings more differences to the surface.

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Critics Reviews

Rating of 2 stars out of 5 Halliwell's Film Guide

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.

Time Out

A wonderfully beady-eyed adaptation of Philip Roth's novella satirising the Jewish nouveau riche and/or the American... Read more on www.timeout.com

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