Portnoy's complaint

Resource Information

The work Portnoy's complaint represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in San Francisco Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

Portnoy's complaint

Statement of responsibility

Warner Bros. Entertainment ; produced by Ernest Lehman in association with Sidney Beckerman ; written for the screen and directed by Ernest Lehman

Contributor

• Roth, Philip
• Warner Bros. Entertainment
• Warner Communications Inc
• Warner Home Video (Firm)
• Beckerman, Sidney
• Benjamin, Richard, 1938-
• Berlin, Jeannie, 1949-
• Black, Karen, 1939-2013
• Clayburgh, Jill
• Conway, Kevin
• Grant, Lee, 1927-
• Lathrop, Philip, 1912-1995
• Legrand, Michel, 1932-2019
• Lehman, Ernest, 1915-2005
• O'Steen, Sam, 1923-2000
• Rains, Jessica
• Somack, Jack
• Stadlen, Lewis J.
• Zee, Eleanor, 1931-

Actor

• Zee, Eleanor, 1931-
• Rains, Jessica
• Black, Karen, 1939-2013
• Berlin, Jeannie, 1949-
• Somack, Jack
• Benjamin, Richard, 1938-
• Stadlen, Lewis J.
• Grant, Lee, 1927-
• Conway, Kevin
• Clayburgh, Jill

Conductor

• Legrand, Michel, 1932-2019

Director of photography

• Lathrop, Philip, 1912-1995

Editor of moving image work

• O'Steen, Sam, 1923-2000

Film director

• Lehman, Ernest, 1915-2005

Film distributor

• Warner Home Video (Firm)

Film producer

• Lehman, Ernest, 1915-2005
• Beckerman, Sidney

Presenter

• Warner Communications Inc

Production company

• Warner Bros. Entertainment

Screenwriter

• Lehman, Ernest, 1915-2005

Subject

• Young men -- New York (State) | New York -- Drama
• Comedy films
• Feature films
• Fiction films
• Jewish families -- New York (State) | New York -- Drama
• Jewish men -- New York (State) | New York -- Drama
• Man-woman relationships -- Drama
• Melodramas (Motion pictures)
• Mothers and sons -- Drama
• Psychoanalysis -- Humor
• Sex -- Humor
• Sex addicts -- New York (State) | New York -- Humor

Genre

• Melodramas (Motion pictures)
• Drama
• Humor
• Fiction films
• Comedy films
• Feature films

Language

eng

Summary

"Alexander Portnoy has a problem. He thinks he's living his life in the middle of a Jewish joke. Lying on a psychoanalyst's couch, Portnoy unravels his endless complaint with the one-track selfishness of an aging adolescent. He whines, he howls, he dredges his character and comes up empty-handed. For years, Alexander Portnoy has been led about by his libido...and has been unable to satisfy it. Now he can. He's met the Monkey, an uninhibited, air-headed model who -- heart, soul, and everything else -- is devotedly Portnoy's. So why isn't he happy? "So what's to be happy about?" That response underscores this outlandish spoof of sexuality and ingrained guilt."--Container

Member of

• Archive collection

Cataloging source

TEFMT

Characteristic

videorecording

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Credits note

Director of photography, Philip Lathrop ; editing, Sam O'Steen, Gordon Scott ; music composed and conducted by Michel Legrand

Dewey number

791.45/72

Intended audience

Rating: R

Language note

In English

LC call number

PN1997

LC item number

.P67 2012

PerformerNote

Richard Benjamin, Karen Black, Lee Grant, Jack Somack, Jeannie Berlin, Jill Clayburgh, D.P. Barnes, Francesca De Sapio, Kevin Conway, Lewis Stadlen, Renée Lippin, Jessica Rains, Eleanor Zee

Runtime

101

Series statement

WB Home Entertainment Group archive collection

Technique

live action