An aspiring Jewish actor moves out of his parents' Brooklyn apartment to seek his fortune in the bohemian life of Greenwich Village in 1953.
Lenny Baker
as Larry Lapinsky
Shelley Winters
as Faye Lapinsky
Ellen Greene
as Sarah Roth
Lois Smith
as Anita Cunningham
Christopher Walken
as Robert Fulmer
Dori Brenner
as Connie
Antonio Fargas
as Bernstein Chandler
Lou Jacobi
as Herb
Mike Kellin
as Ben Lapinsky
Michael Egan
as Acting Teacher
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There were loads of these type of films made in the mid 1970s about aspiring types finally out from under their parental wing and now hitting the big city with dreams and hormones racing. Here, the quite charismatic Lenny Baker is “Larry”, a Jewish lad who thinks he could be the next Marlon Brando, ...