Next Stop, Greenwich Village

Next Stop, Greenwich Village

1976 · 111 min · EN · 6.4 (46 votes)
Dir. Paul Mazursky · Starring Lenny Baker, Shelley Winters, Ellen Greene, Lois Smith, Christopher Walken, Dori Brenner · Music Bill Conti

“Greenwich Village, 1953. It was coffeehouses and high adventure, it was your first love and your best dream, it was girls who drank wine and your mother back home asking God to forgive you.”

ComedyDrama

An aspiring Jewish actor moves out of his parents' Brooklyn apartment to seek his fortune in the bohemian life of Greenwich Village in 1953.

VIBE

A tender, funny, and sometimes painful look at a young man finding himself amidst the vibrant, chaotic energy of 1950s Greenwich Village. It feels like eavesdropping on real lives, full of awkwardness and earnest yearning.

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