Bye Bye Braverman
Type
Label
Bye Bye Braverman
Language
eng
Characteristic
videorecording
Intended audience
NRA
Main title
Bye Bye Braverman
Medium
electronic resource
Runtime
94
Series statement
Archive collection
Summary
Serpico. Dog Day Afternoon. Prince of the City. In these gritty and distinguished films, director Sidney Lumet held a mirror up to his adopted hometown, New York. In Bye Bye Braverman, he uses a funhouse mirror. The result is hilarious, satiric, wise, giddy-and no less trenchant. Sparked by a blue-ribbon cast, the film follows four Jewish intellectuals jammed into one Volkswagen and squabbling nonstop en route to the funeral of their friend Leslie Braverman. What happens on the way (a fender bender with a Yiddish-spouting African-American cabbie, a stop at the wrong funeral) forms the plot, but the kvetching, joking, fuming and ultimately fearful quartet forms the heart of this smart, sardonic comedy
Target audience
adult
Technique
live action
Contributor
Subject
- Comedy films
- Funeral rites and ceremonies -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired
- Automobile travel -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama
- Feature films
- Jewish men -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama
- Intellectuals -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama
- Markfield, Wallace -- Film adaptations
Content
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Outgoing Resources
- Contributor13
- Genre3
- Subject8
- Comedy films
- Funeral rites and ceremonies -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired
- Automobile travel -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama
- Feature films
- Jewish men -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama
- Intellectuals -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama
- Markfield, Wallace -- Film adaptations
- Content1
- Is Part Of1