Directed by:
Claudia WeillCinematography:
Fred MurphyComposer:
Michael SmallCast:
Christopher Guest, Melanie Mayron, Anita Skinner, Kenneth McMillan, Eli Wallach, Jean De Baer, Viveca Lindfors, Bob Balaban, Mike Kellin, Kristoffer Tabori (more)VOD (1)
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When her best friend and roommate abruptly moves out to get married, Susan (Melanie Mayron), trying to become a gallery artist while making ends meet as a bar mitzvah photographer on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, finds herself adrift in both life and love. Could a new job be the answer? What about a fling with a married, older rabbi (Eli Wallach)? A wonder of American independent filmmaking whose remarkably authentic vision of female relationships has become a touchstone for makers of an entire subgenre of films and television shows about young women trying to make it in the big city, this 1970s New York time capsule from Claudia Weill captures the complexities and contradictions of women’s lives and relationships with wry humor and refreshing frankness. (Criterion)
(more)Cast
Christopher Guest
USA
Best movies:
The Princess Bride (1987)
A Few Good Men (1992)
Death Wish (1974)
Melanie Mayron
USA
Best movies:
Playing for Time (1980) (TV movie)
Missing (1982)
Harry and Tonto (1974)
Anita Skinner
Best movies:
Girlfriends (1978)
Sole Survivor (1983)
Kenneth McMillan
USA
Best movies:
Amadeus (1984)
Serpico (1973)
Whose Life Is It Anyway? (1981)
Eli Wallach
USA
Best movies:
The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980 (1992) (TV movie)
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
The Magnificent Seven (1960)
Jean De Baer
Best movies:
Maverick (1994)
Wall Street (1987)
84 Charing Cross Road (1987)
Viveca Lindfors
Sweden
Best movies:
Adventures of Don Juan (1948)
Freckled Max and the Spooks (1987)
Playing for Time (1980) (TV movie)
Bob Balaban
USA
Best movies:
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
Whose Life Is It Anyway? (1981)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Mike Kellin
USA
Best movies:
Midnight Express (1978)
The Incident (1967)
The Boston Strangler (1968)
Kristoffer Tabori
USA
Best movies:
Dirty Harry (1971)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1988) (TV movie)
John and Mary (1969)
Amy Wright
USA
Best movies:
The Deer Hunter (1978)
The Telephone (1988)
The Namesake (2006)
Kathryn Walker
USA
Best movies:
Girlfriends (1978)
D.A.R.Y.L. (1985)
Neighbors (1981)
Russell Horton
USA
Best movies:
Annie Hall (1977)
Girlfriends (1978)
Starting Over (1979)
Roderick Cook
UK
Best movies:
Amadeus (1984)
The Great Waldo Pepper (1975)
Two-Fisted Tales (1992) (TV movie)