You're a Big Boy Now

Naive library clerk Bernard Chanticleer moves out of his parents’ home and into a chaotic city full of eccentric landlords, meddling parents, and romantic missteps. Infatuated with a glamorous but manipulative go-go dancer, he learns through heartbreak—and the kindness of a steadfast admirer—what growing up really means.

Cast

Elizabeth Hartman

as Barbara Darling

Geraldine Page

as Margery Chanticleer

Peter Kastner

as Bernard Chanticleer

Rip Torn

as I.H. Chanticleer

Michael Dunn

as Richard Mudd

Karen Black

as Amy Partlett

Tony Bill

as Raef del Grado

Julie Harris

as Miss Nora Thing

Dolph Sweet

as Patrolman Francis Graf

Michael O'Sullivan

as Kurt Dougherty

Reviews

Wuchak

_**A naïve lad goes through an awkward and quirky growth phase in Manhattan**_ 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 lan...

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