Next Stop, Greenwich Village

1976
R
1h 51m

IMDb RATING

7.0/10

2.5K

YOUR RATING

The ups and downs of life as experienced by a group of aspiring young artists in the early Fifties New York.

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Coming-of-Age Teen Drama Comedy Drama

The ups and downs of life as experienced by a group of aspiring young artists in the early Fifties New York.The ups and downs of life as experienced by a group of aspiring young artists in the early Fifties New York.The ups and downs of life as experienced by a group of aspiring young artists in the early Fifties New York.

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IMDb RATING

7.0/10

2.5K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award
- 6 nominations total

Trivia
Final film appearance of Lenny Baker and his only film as a leading actor.

Goofs
Photo of Jayne Mansfield on wall of Twentieth Century Fox casting director in 1953, at least two years before she was signed to studio or even beyond bit player status.

Quotes
Ellen: Was everything a joke to you?
Larry Lapinsky: Not everything.
Herbert Berghof - Acting Coach: See, you're joking right now, right?
Larry Lapinsky: What do you want me to say?
Herbert Berghof - Acting Coach: Joking is what's doing you in. Joking is the American actor's disease. It's the American person's disease. Because what you're doing is you're keeping reality out so that it won't touch you. The worst kind of joking you can do is keep life out. Commenting, editorializing, joking - terrible! Don't do it. It's fatal.

Connections
Featured in The Celluloid Closet (1995)

Soundtracks
Three To Get Ready
Written by Dave Brubeck (uncredited)
Performed by the Dave Brubeck Quartet

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Get off at Christopher Street & experience this film...

This is a bittersweet film about family, leaving "the nest", friendships, dreams, hope, & finding yourself. A young man from Brooklyn leaves home to become an actor in 1950's Greenwich Village. Lenny Baker is very good as Larry Lapinsky & Ellen Green is wonderful as his girlfriend. The quirky characters & situations around them add an ambiance to this movie that makes you believe it was filmed in the 1950's, & not the 70's, when it was actually made. A lot of attention was paid to detail & it shows. Shelly Winters is loud, obnoxious, funny & convincing as the typical Jewish mother (I love the scene when she shows up at his apartment with a chicken). This movie makes you wish you could jump into the film & sit with these characters, have coffee with them, ride the subway, go to one of Larry's rent parties & experience the progressive, offbeat world of New York's Greenwich Village in the 1950's.