Around 1940, New Yorker staff writer Joe Mitchell meets Joe Gould, a Greenwich Village character who cadges meals, drinks, and contributions to the Joe Gould Fund and who is writing a voluminous Oral History of the World, a record of 20,000 conversations he's overheard. Mitchell is fascinated with this Harvard grad and writes a 1942 piece about him, "Professor Seagull," bringing Gould some celebrity and an invitation to join the Greenwich Village Ravens, a poetry club he's often crashed. Gould's touchy, querulous personality and his frequent dropping in on Mitchell for hours of chat lead to a breakup, but the two Joes stay in touch until Gould's death and Mitchell's unveiling of the secret.
Joe Gould's Secret has generally received positive reviews.
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Joe Gould's Secret was released in 2000 and has generally received positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 32 reviews, giving Joe Gould's Secret (2000) an average rating of 66%.
Overall, cinema-goers prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 90%, compared to film critics, who gave it a lower average score of 78%. Amateur reviewers were more impressed with Joe Gould's Secret than critics were.
With a score of 66%, Joe Gould's Secret is above the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 2000, which stands at 58%.
Other movies from 2000 with similar scores include films like The Road to El Dorado, The Crimson Rivers and Return to Me.
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