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You're a Big Boy Now is a 1966 American comedy film written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Based on David Benedictus ' 1963 novel of the same name, it stars Elizabeth Hartman, Peter Kastner, Geraldine Page, her spouse Rip Torn, Karen Black, and Julie Harris .
You're a Big Boy Now: Directed by Francis Ford Coppola. With Elizabeth Hartman, Geraldine Page, Peter Kastner, Rip Torn. Post-teen virgin moves to New York City, falls for a cold-hearted beauty, then finds true love with a loyal lass.
But "You're a Big Boy Now" is more amusing than "17" and half a length better than the miserable "Benjamin." Coppola has fun directing, and his film is filled with sight jokes, high-spirited performances and a lively sound track by the Lovin' Spoonful.
Mayor John Lindsay intervened to get Francis Ford Coppola and crew approved to shoot in the main New York Public library, into which Elizabeth Hartman struts, drawing the attention of stack boy Peter Kastner, Tony Bill his buddy, opening You're A Big Boy Now, 1966.
Dec 20, 2010 · You're a Big Boy Now was Francis Ford Coppola's UCLA Film School Master's thesis -- and a hilarious, high-speed debut in film comedy for the future maker of The Godfather and Apocalypse Now. Fresh off A Patch of Blue, Elizabeth Hartman bewitchingly plays the free spirit who tempts Bernard.
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You're a Big Boy Now. A New York Public Library clerk (Peter Kastner) leaves home and meets a go-go dancer (Elizabeth Hartman).
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A 19 year-old “boy” working as a low-level assistant at the New York Public Library (Peter Kastner) is encouraged by his strict curator father (Rip Torn) to move out on his own and so gets an apartment with a nosey landlady (Julie Harris).
Post-teen virgin moves to New York City, falls for a cold-hearted beauty, then finds true love with a loyal lass.
You're a Big Boy Now is a 1966 film written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola about an upper-middle-class young man's coming of age in 1960s Manhattan. It was based on David Benedictus' 1963 novel of the same name and starred Elizabeth Hartman, Peter Kastner, Geraldine Page, Rip Torn, Karen Black, and Julie Harris.
Bernard Chanticleer is almost twenty and lives at home in Great Neck, Long Island, with his overbearing mother Margery and his smug father I. H., who calls his son Big Boy. The kid thinks about girls day and night, but doesn’t know how to meet them.
