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Friday, February 14, 2020

GOODBYE COLUMBUS (1969)



Directed By: Larry Peerce 
Written by: Arnold Schulman 
Based on a Novel By: Philip Roth 
Cinematography: Enrique Bravo & Gerald Hirschfeld 
Editor: Ralph Rosenblum 


Cast: Richard Benjamin, Ali MacGraw, Jack Klugman, Nan Martin, Jaclyn Smith, Michael Nouri, Michael Myers, Monroe Arnold 


A Jewish man and a Jewish woman meet and while attracted to each other, find that their worlds are very different. She is the archtypical 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.