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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.
Based on Philip Roth's novel, the film stars Richard Benjamin and Ali MacGraw as a Jewish couple with different backgrounds and expectations. Watch the trailer, see photos, read reviews and trivia, and learn about the Oscar nomination and box office performance.
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- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Larry Peerce
- 1969-05-21
Goodbye, Columbus is a 1959 collection of fiction by the American novelist Philip Roth. The compilation includes the titular novella, "Goodbye, Columbus," originally published in The Paris Review, along with five short stories. It was Roth's first book and was published by Houghton Mifflin.
- Philip Roth
- 1959
A young Jewish man falls in love with a wealthy WASP girl in New Jersey in the 1950s. Read the summary of the short story by Philip Roth, the themes, quotes, characters, and symbols.
Rent Goodbye, Columbus on Fandango at Home, Prime Video, or buy it on Fandango at Home, Prime Video. Neil Klugman (Richard Benjamin), a young librarian in New Jersey, has eyes for Brenda...
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- Comedy, Drama
- PG
Summaries. 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. A Jewish man and a Jewish woman meet, and while attracted to each other, they find that their worlds are very different.
Goodbye, Columbus. Philip Roth. 3.86. 20,208 ratings1,364 reviews. Neil Klugman and pretty, spirited Brenda Patimkin - he of poor Newark, she of suburban Short Hills - meet one summer and dive into an affair that is as much about social class and suspicion as it is about love.
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