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Lenny Baker
Larry Lapinsky
Shelley Winters
Faye Lapinsky
Ellen Greene
Sarah Roth
Lois Smith
Anita Cunningham
Christopher Walken
Robert Fulmer
Dori Brenner
Connie
Antonio Fargas
Bernstein Chandler
Lou Jacobi
Herb
Mike Kellin
Ben Lapinsky
Michael Egan
Acting Teacher
Rashel Novikoff
Mrs. Tupperman
John C. Becher
Casting Director
Jeff Goldblum
Clyde Baxter
Joe Spinell
Cop
Denise Galik
Ellen
Rochelle Oliver
Doctor Marsha
Sol Frieder
Mr. Elkins
Helen Hanft
Herb's Wife
John Ford Noonan
Barney
Carole Monferdini
Southern Girl
Gui Andrisano
Marco
Joe Madden
Old Poet
Rubin Levine
Street Violinist
Milton Frome
Drugstore Customer (uncredited)
Paul Mazursky
Casting Director (uncredited)
Bill Murray
Nick Kessel (uncredited)
Vincent Schiavelli
Party Guest (uncredited)
Rutanya Alda
Party Guest (uncredited)
Stuart Pankin
Party Guest (uncredited)
Annie Gagen
Acting Student (uncredited)
Kandice Stroh
Acting Student (uncredited)
Frankie Verroca
Acting Student (uncredited)
Billie Perkins
Hippie Girl (uncredited)
Filomena Spagnuolo
Old Lady on Street (uncredited)

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A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on Sat Jul 05 2025

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, or maybe Laurence Olivier - even though a local beat cop reckons he might want to change professions altogether. He has moved away from his doting but overpowering mother (Shelley Winters) and takes up with his girlfriend “Sarah” (Ellen Greene) for the usual slew of castings, romantic interludes, fig...