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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.
With Richard Benjamin, Ali MacGraw, Jack Klugman, Nan Martin. 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.
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.
Goodbye, Columbus. Neil Klugman (Richard Benjamin), a young librarian in New Jersey, has eyes for Brenda Patimkin (Ali MacGraw), a beautiful Radcliffe student. Although they are both Jewish ...
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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.
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Neil discovers that Brenda is not taking birth control pills because they make her sick, and he insists that she get fitted for a diaphragm. On the night before Brenda's return to school, her brother Ron marries his girl friend, whom he met while he was an Ohio State basketball star in Columbus.
Goodbye, Columbus. A poor librarian from the Bronx who was recently discharged from the Army woos a rich man's daughter from the suburbs. 315 IMDb 6.4 1 h 41 min 1969. PG.
Novel. Arnold Schulman. Screenplay. A Jewish man and a Jewish woman meet, and while attracted to each other, find that their worlds are very different. She is the archetypal Jewish American Princess — very emotionally involved with her parents' world and the world they have created for her, while he is much less dependent on his family.
A surprisingly engaging film from 1969, "Goodbye Columbus" is based on Philip Roth's novel from a decade earlier. It centers on the summer romance between two Jewish young people from radically-different backgrounds, and highlights class differences in the Jewish-American community and the changing sexual mores of the period.
