Joe Gould's Secret (2000)

Directors

Stanley Tucci

Cast

Ian Holm, Stanley Tucci, Hope Davis, Hallee Hirsh, Sarah Hyland, Celia Weston, Susan Sarandon, Patricia Clarkson

The story

Set in Manhattan in the early 1940s, the film focuses on the relationship between Joseph Mitchell, a writer for The New Yorker, and Joe Gould, an aging, bearded, disheveled bohemian and Harvard University graduate who wanders through the streets of Greenwich Village carrying a tattered portfolio and demanding donations to "The Joe Gould Fund." At times Gould is calmly sweet and perceptive, at others he's a pathological liar and an obnoxious drunk, and he frequently experiences sudden outbursts of rage. Earning occasional financial support from poet e.e. cummings, portrait painter Alice Neel, Village Vanguard founder Max Gordon, and art…

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