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21 May 1969 (France) moreTagline:
Every father's daughter is a virgin.Plot:
A Jewish man and a jewish woman meet and while attracted to each other find that their worlds are very different... more | add synopsisAwards:
Nominated for Oscar. Another 4 wins & 8 nominations moreUser Comments:
Mildly interesting social commentary. moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Richard Benjamin | ... | Neil Klugman | |
| Ali MacGraw | ... | Brenda Patimkin | |
| Jack Klugman | ... | Ben Patimkin | |
| Nan Martin | ... | Mrs. Ben Patimkin | |
| Michael Meyers | ... | Ron Patimkin | |
| Lori Shelle | ... | Julie Patimkin | |
| Monroe Arnold | ... | Uncle Leo | |
| Kay Cummings | ... | Doris Klugman | |
| Sylvie Strause | ... | Aunt Gladys | |
| Royce Wallace | ... | Carlotta | |
| Anthony McGowan | ... | Boy in Library | |
| Mari Gorman | ... | Laura Simpson Sockaloe | |
| Chris Schenkel | ... | Voice on Columbus Record (voice) | |
| Jay Jostyn | ... | Voice on Columbus Record (voice) | |
| Jan Peerce | ... | Uncle Manny |
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102 minCountry:
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West Germany:18 | USA:PG (re-rating) (1972) | USA:R (original rating) | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:Btl | Ireland:(Banned)Fun Stuff
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Early in the film, Richard Benjamin and Ali MacGraw's characters go to a cinema which is playing the film The Odd Couple (1968). Their costar in the film, Jack Klugman, went on to star in the TV series based on that film. moreGoofs:
Factual errors: At the dinner table, Julie is told that it is earlier in Columbus, where Harriet is calling from, than where she lives in New York. In fact both cities are in the same Eastern Standard Time Zone. In the book, Harriet is calling from Milwaukee in the Central Time Zone, which is correct. However, when the screenplay changed her location to Columbus, the writer failed to realize this fact and change the dialog or the city. moreQuotes:
Neil Klugman: [discussing birth control] What do you take?Brenda Patimkin: Nothing. Turn off the water.
Neil Klugman: Nothing?
Brenda Patimkin: Listen, I tried the pills, but they made me fat and made me sick, and besides every single day you read something new about them in the paper, so I decided I was better off with nothing.
Neil Klugman: [pause] Brenda, I'd like to talk to you about nothing.
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Many of Philip Roth's novels plough the same furrow. A sane, rational, sensible Jewish man has a difficult life because of oppressive Jewish society amongst well-off New Yorkers, in which women are capricious, malevolent, and obsessed with frippery and social position. This one is an example.
Richard Benjamin, often looking remarkably like Rowan Atkinson, plays Philip Roth (under the name of Neil Klugman), opposite Ali McGraw in her first cinema role. She's a Jewish-American Princess - and this was probably the movie which exposed this species to the world outside New York State.
Everybody except Roth is incredibly shallow and boneheaded, although the father, nicely played by Jack Klugman, is allowed a certain rough honest grace and decency.
The main message one gets from the film is that the wealthy of Westchester County are unpleasant people, Jewish-American Princesses especially so, but even they pale in comparison with their ghastly mothers.
In the book, Roth's ability as a writer enlivens the proceedings, but his verbal felicity isn't translated into the visuals of the screenplay, and the film is laboured.