Next Stop, Greenwich Village
A young Brooklyn actor moves to Greenwich Village in 1953, chasing the stage, artistic freedom, and adulthood while struggling to escape his mother’s guilt, his own uncertainty, and the emotional chaos of his new friends. The film takes place in 1953. Larry Lipinsky is a 22-year old Jewish boy from the Jewish enclave Brownsville in Brooklyn, New York, who has dreams of stardom. He moves to Greenwich Village, much to the chagrin of his extremely over-protective mother. Larry ends up hanging out with an eccentric bunch of characters while waiting for his big break. He has a group of tight-knit friends, which includes a wacky girl named Connie; Anita, an emotionally distraught woman who constantly contemplates suicide; Robert, a young WASP who fancies himself a poet; and Bernstein, an African-American gay man. All the while, he tries to maintain a stormy relationship with Sarah, his girlfriend. This band of outsiders becomes Larry's new family as he struggles as an actor and works toward a break in Hollywood. Greenwich Village, 1953. It was coffeehouses and high adventure, it was your first love and your best dream, it was girls who drank wine and your mother back home asking God to forgive you. An aspiring Jewish actor moves out of his parents' Brooklyn apartment to seek his fortune in the bohemian life of Greenwich Village in 1953.
