The title story of Philip Roth's novella Goodbye, Columbus (1959) is the subject of the 1969 film of the same name, directed by Larry Peerce.
Neil Klugman (Richard Benjamin) is a highly intelligent, working class army veteran and graduate of Rutgers University who earns a living as a library clerk. He falls in love with Brenda Patimkin (Ali MacGraw), a wealthy student at Radcliffe College who is at home for the summer. The consequent obstacles th...
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The title story of Philip Roth's novella Goodbye, Columbus (1959) is the subject of the 1969 film of the same name, directed by Larry Peerce.
Neil Klugman (Richard Benjamin) is a highly intelligent, working class army veteran and graduate of Rutgers University who earns a living as a library clerk. He falls in love with Brenda Patimkin (Ali MacGraw), a wealthy student at Radcliffe College who is at home for the summer. The consequent obstacles that they face from Brenda's family, (particularly her father portrayed by Jack Klugman) due to differences in class and assimilation into the American mainstream, create the central conflicts of the film. Morality and propriety differences related to the premarital sex and the possibilities of ill-timed pregnancies, consist of the more imposing conflicts, and the ones proving impossible to resolve.
1970: Writers Guild of America Award: Best Comedy Adapted from Another Medium.
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