You're a Big Boy Now
| You're a Big Boy Now | |
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| Directed by | Francis Ford Coppola |
| Produced by | Phil Feldman |
| Screenplay by | Francis Ford Coppola |
| Based on | You're a Big Boy Now by David Benedictus |
| Starring |
Elizabeth Hartman Geraldine Page Peter Kastner Rip Torn Michael Dunn Tony Bill Karen Black Julie Harris Dolph Sweet Michael O'Sullivan |
| Music by | Robert Prince |
| Cinematography | Andrew Laszlo |
| Edited by | Aram Avakian |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros.-Seven Arts |
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Release date
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December 9, 1966 |
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Running time
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97 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $800,000 |
You're a Big Boy Now is a 1966 film written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola about an upper-middle-class young man's coming of age in 1960s Manhattan. It was based on David Benedictus' 1963 novel of the same name and starred Elizabeth Hartman, Peter Kastner, Geraldine Page, Rip Torn, Karen Black, and Julie Harris.
Bernard Chanticleer (Peter Kastner), called "Big Boy" by his parents, is 19 but still lives with his overbearing, clinging mother (Geraldine Page) and his commanding, disapproving father (Rip Torn), who is Curator of Incunabula at the New York Public Library. Bernard also works as a low-level assistant at the library, where his father is constantly monitoring and admonishing him. His father decides it's time he grew up and moved out of the family home in Great Neck and into his own Manhattan apartment. His mother is not happy about letting him go, but acquiesces to her husband and arranges for Bernard to live in a rooming house run by nosy, prudish Miss Nora Thing (Julie Harris). Miss Thing inherited the building on the condition that her late brother's aggressive pet rooster be allowed to occupy the fifth floor, which Bernard must pass to get to his room. Miss Thing reassures Bernard's mother that the rooster only attacks girls, especially young pretty girls, to which Bernard's mother responds that her son isn't interested in girls yet, but arranges that Miss Thing will spy on Bernard and report any "female" activity. Bernard's mother also constantly mails locks of her hair to Bernard at his new residence.
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