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Warner Bros. Pictures
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Release Date: Apr 7, 2000
Running Time: 108 mins.
Country Of Origin: United States
synopsis
Set in New York City during the 1940s and 50s, a time when artists and writers often gathered together in a neighborhood called Greenwich Village, this is the true story of the friendship between famed New Yorker writer Joseph Mitchell and bohemian Joe Gould, a self-proclaimed scholar of the NYC streets. Yankee born and Harvard educated, the disheveled Gould's life's work is "The Oral History of Our Time," a transcription of hundreds of conversations, remarks, and essays about what he has seen and heard. Meanwhile, he's chronically jobless and depends on contributions to the "Joe Gould Fund" from friends and well-wishers. After Mitchell writes about him in The New Yorker, Gould becomes a minor celebrity. Their relationship grows more intense over the years as Mitchell becomes the keeper of Joe Gould's secret.
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Joe Gould
Joseph Mitchell
Therese Mitchell
Elizabeth Mitchell
Nora Mitchell
Sarah
Harold Ross
Alice Neel
Vivian Marquie
Harry Kolis
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Joe Gould is a true-life character made briefly famous in a couple of magazine profiles penned by the New Yorker's legendary Joseph Mitchell. Gould, a shabby old bohemian gent who's slowly going mad as he gathers up oral histories from denizens of the city. He's a kind of whirling dervish of the street -- charming one minute and raging abusively the next. Story This is another case of character substituting for plot. Gould's fragile relationship with Mitchell drives the tale, and though there
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