To me, this movie is perfection.

Brilliant and touching

Absolutely brilliant

The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity

This movie was very boring and made really no kind of sense to me at all. It's about this ugly, gap-toothed, 19 year old guy who doesn't know much about girls and when he moves out on his own, he decides to see what girls are like. He walks around Times Square and ends up at a peep show. Elizabeth Hartman plays an actress who's also a go-go dancer in whom the ugly guy gets a crush on after watching her dance at a club one day. She decides to mess with his mind by inviting him to move in with her and gives him some what of a thrill that night(Don't worry nothing happens she just turns out the lights, kisses him and then dumps him the next day. I just knew she wouldn't go that far). She then begins to date the ugly guy's friend whom she eventually dumps as well. You can tell she's an insecure person who loves to mess with guy's minds and then dump them. At the end the ugly guy ends up getting together with this cross-eyed chick who's had a huge crush on him throughout the whole movie. Thank God Elizabeth Hartman is my favorite actress. Otherwise I would've stopped watching this movie about 20 mins after it started. It was a bore!!!

This is pretty much a lousy unfunny movie, but it's got Karen Allen and Rip Torn and Geraldine Page and is directed by Francis Coppola. The movie moves, and makes absolutely no sense. There is no way to relate to the totally geeky kid who stars in this flick. However, much of it was filmed outdoors in New York City in 1966, and for those of us who live here, the difference between then and now is stark, and makes the flick worth watching. For example, the kid roller skates to work, and one scene is quite extended and rolls through lots of familiar Manhattan streets. The most shocking scened is when he goes past Penn Station, which no longer exists. At the moment when the film was shot, the front facade of Penn Station was still standing, and behind it, Madison Square Garden was rising.I froze that frame to stare at it. I couldn't believe that such a moment in architecture actually existed, leave alone be preserved on film. The scenes in Central Park are fascinating to compare the brown and yellow grass/dirt of yesteryear with the verdancy of today's park. The park was on a downward cycle at that time, later to be saved by the Central Park Conservancy.It's wild and raucous and dopey, but it shows a great deal of creativity with settings and a camera that moves with or against the actors. It's skillful and fascinating and utterly meaningless, but it's history.

What we have here is an early F.F.C. effort (he also wrote most of the screenplay).You can see the genius that is later to come.Here's a confused, virginal young man, constantly picked on by his over-bearing parents, trying to find his way in the world of New York City. Bernard is his name and just watch what he does with initials he spots.The gal that wants him he doesn't want, and the gal that he wants doesn't want him. Got it straight? No wonder this is turning into a "cult" film.The acting is first rate in a lot of places. Geraldine Page is always great and Rip Torn can handle most roles. Julie Harris was "perfect" as Mrs. Thing (honest, that's her name). Speaking of names, the part played by Lisa Hartman is Barbara Darling, a would-be actress who dances in a go-go club at night.Watching Bernard weave his way through conniving co-workers and the strange behavior of Miz Darling, is worth the price of admission.I always wonder who writes these critiques for IMDB, and should I trust them? For that reason,I'd like you all to know that I am a male senior citizen, but this movie made me feel 18 again. You'll find yourself running into similar things that happened to you in your youthful pursuits.You could do a lot worse taking a chance on a movie.

One of the few times when the late Elizabeth Hartman gets to play as somebody other than a frail, mousy girl. Since her Oscar Nominated performance in "A Patch of Blue," Hollywood always seemed to want her to play vulnerable, handicapped women, or vulnerable women of some sort. This time, she plays a bitchy, egotistical, man-hating actress/go-go dancer, who wins the heart of a young library clerk, played by Peter Kastner. The kind of character, who could probably be the inspiration for a riot grrrl band.Besides that, I'm a Native New Yorker, so I've got a natural attraction for movies filmed in New York City, and the rest of the tri-state area. Biff Rules!