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Next Stop, Greenwich Village

Next Stop, Greenwich Village

Directed by Paul Mazursky

Produced by Paul MazurskyAnthony Ray

Written by Paul Mazursky

Starring Lenny BakerShelley WintersEllen GreeneLois SmithChristopher Walken

Music by Bill ContiDave Brubeck Quartet

Cinematography Arthur J. Ornitz

Editing by Richard Halsey

Distributed by 20th Century Fox

Release dates February 4, 1976

Running time 111 min.

Country United States

Language English

Box office $1,060,000 (US/ Canada)[1]

Next Stop, Greenwich Village is a 1976 romantic comedy drama film, set in the early 1950s, written and directed byPaul Mazursky, featuring, amongst others, Lenny Baker, Shelley Winters, Ellen Greene, Lois Smith, and ChristopherWalken. The film was generally well received by critics. Film review aggregate website Rotten Tomatoes gave thefilm a "fresh" score of 80% based on 10 reviews.[2] Filmmaker Mazursky had made his acting debut in StanleyKubrick's 1953 film Fear and Desire (shot in New York) and Next Stop, Greenwich Village is asemiautobiographical account of Mazursky's early life as an actor in that city. The film was entered into the 1976Cannes Film Festival.

PlotThe film takes place in 1953. Larry Lipinsky is a young Jewish boy from Brooklyn, New York, who has dreams ofstardom. He moves to Greenwich Village, much to the chagrin of his extremely overprotective mother. Larry endsup hanging out with an eccentric bunch of characters while waiting for his big break. He has group of tight-knitfriends, which includes a wacky girl named Connie; Anita, an emotionally distraught young woman who constantlycontemplates suicide; Robert, a young WASP who fancies himself a poet; and Bernstein, a gay man. All the while,he tries to maintain a stormy relationship with Sarah, his girlfriend. This band of outsiders becomes Larry's newfamily as he struggles as an actor and works toward a break in Hollywood.

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Cast• Lenny Baker as Larry Lapinsky• Shelley Winters as Fay Lapinsky• Ellen Greene as Sarah• Lois Smith as Anita• Christopher Walken as Robert (as Chris Walken)• Antonio Fargas as Bernstein• Jeff Goldblum as Clyde Baxter• Bill Murray (uncredited) as Nick Kessler• Stuart Pankin (uncredited) as Man at Party• Vincent Schiavelli (uncredited) as Man at Rent Party

References[1] Solomon, Aubrey. Twentieth Century Fox: A Corporate and Financial History (The Scarecrow Filmmakers Series). Lanham, Maryland:

Scarecrow Press, 1989. ISBN 978-0-8108-4244-1. p233. Please note figures are rentals accruing to distributors and not total gross.[2] http:/ / www. rottentomatoes. com/ m/ next_stop_greenwich_village/

External links• Next Stop, Greenwich Village (http:/ / www. imdb. com/ title/ tt0074963/ ) at the Internet Movie Database

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