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Portnoy's Complaint 1972

type: Movie

language: English

duration: 101 min

genre: comedy

director: Ernest Lehman

Score: 2 / 10

Portnoy's Complaint is a 1972 comedy film written and directed by Ernest Lehman. His screenplay is based on the bestselling 1969 novel of the same name by Philip Roth.

Plot

The film focuses on the trials and tribulations of Alexander Portnoy, a Jewish man employed as the assistant commissioner of human opportunity for New York City.

Cast

Jill Clayburgh
Karen Black
Lee Grant
Richard Benjamin

More details

author	Ernest Lehman
contentLocation	New York City
director	Ernest Lehman
editor	Sam O'Steen
genre	comedy
keywords	flashback israel jewish man overbearing mother psychoanalysis psychoanalyst
musicBy	Michel Legrand
producer	Ernest Lehman Sidney Beckerman
productionCompany	Chenault Productions
publisher	Warner Bros.