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Goodbye, Columbus is a 1969 American romantic comedy-drama film starring Richard Benjamin and Ali MacGraw, directed by Larry Peerce and based on the 1959 novella of the same name by Philip Roth. The screenplay, by Arnold Schulman, won the Writers Guild of America Award.
Goodbye, Columbus: Directed by Larry Peerce. With Richard Benjamin, Ali MacGraw, Jack Klugman, Nan Martin. An intelligent graduate and working-class Army veteran has an affair and clashes with a 'nouveau riche' young woman who cares not for birth control or the use of any other precautions to avoid pregnancy.
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- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Larry Peerce
- 1969-05-21
Neil Klugman (Richard Benjamin), a young librarian in New Jersey, has eyes for Brenda Patimkin (Ali MacGraw), a beautiful Radcliffe student. Although they are both Jewish, Brenda's family is much...
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- Larry Peerce
- PG
- Richard Benjamin
Based on one of author Phillip Roth's shorter works, Goodbye Columbus stars Richard Benjamin as Neil, a young man of humble means who falls in love with Jewish-American-princess Brenda (Ali...
An intelligent graduate and working-class Army veteran has an affair and clashes with a 'nouveau riche' young woman who cares not for birth control or the use of any other precautions to avoid pregnancy.
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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 archetypal 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.