Review of Next Stop, Greenwich Village (1976) by Blind P — 08 Feb 2009

Next Stop, Greenwich Village passed for its sardonic wit. The story of a struggling young man looking to find his big acting break is not an original premise, but the cast of characters is deep and varied enough to avoid the most trite of cliches. (eg. love conquers all, movie moguls are all corrupt, protagonist seems to lack talent until epiphany strikes).

Young Jeff Goldblum plays a bit part, and Christopher Walken a larger and effective role as a bohemian dilettante. The wide ranges of the Village are exemplified in the feast of friends; the actors and play writers, the lovers, the gays, and the suicidal, as is the disapproval of outside communities to the 1950s cultural changes through our hero's disapproving, histrionic mother.

While it does not manage to move one's emotions, there is still enough to ponder and thus it passes the Spin.