Joe Gould's Secret

2000
6.5
Joe Gould's Secret
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Title: Joe Gould's Secret

Original Title: Joe Gould's Secret

Year: 2000

Info

  • Country: USA
  • Length: 104 Minutes (1 hour 44 min)
  • Genre: Drama

Release Dates

  • United States: May 26 2000

Plot

A 2000 American drama film directed by Stanley Tucci, the third behind the cameras,the screenplay by Howard A. Rodman is based on the magazine article Professor Sea Gull and the book Joe Gould's Secret by Joseph Mitchell.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.

Cast

Director:

Stanley TucciStanley Tucci

Stanley Tucci

Stanley Tucci

Joe Mitchell

Susan Sarandon

Susan Sarandon

Alice Neel

Patricia Clarkson

Patricia Clarkson

Vivian Marquie

Ian Holm

Ian Holm

Joe Gould

Sarah Hyland

Sarah Hyland

Elizabeth Mitchell

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