Next Stop, Greenwich Village
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Next Stop, Greenwich Village is a 1976 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Paul Mazursky, featuring Lenny Baker, Shelley Winters, Ellen Greene, Lois Smith, and Christopher Walken.
Plot
The film takes place in 1953. Larry Lipinsky is a 22-year old Jewish boy from the Jewish enclave Brownsville in Brooklyn, New York, who has dreams of stardom. He moves to Greenwich Village, much to the chagrin of his extremely over-protective mother. Larry ends up hanging out with an eccentric bunch of characters while waiting for his big break. He has a group of tight-knit friends, which includes a wacky girl named Connie; Anita, an emotionally distraught woman who constantly contemplates suicide; Robert, a young WASP who fancies himself a poet; and Bernstein, an African-American gay man. All the while, he tries to maintain a stormy relationship with Sarah, his girlfriend. This band of outsiders becomes Larry's new family as he struggles as an actor and works toward a break in Hollywood.
Cast
- Lenny Baker as Larry Lapinsky
- Shelley Winters as Fay Lapinsky
- Ellen Greene as Sarah
- Lois Smith as Anita
- Christopher Walken as Robert (as Chris Walken)
- Antonio Fargas as Bernstein
- Mike Kellin as Ben Lapinsky
- Lou Jacobi as Herb
- Dori Brenner as Connie
- Jeff Goldblum as Clyde Baxter
- Rashel Novikoff as Mrs. Tupperman
- Michael Egan as Herbert Berghof, Acting Coach
- Bill Murray (uncredited) as Nick Kessler
- Joe Spinell as Cop at El Station
- Stuart Pankin (uncredited) as Man at Party
- Vincent Schiavelli (uncredited) as Man at Rent Party
- Rochelle Oliver as Doctor Marsha