Portnoy's Complaint (1972)
Some book. Some movie.
101 min
During a session with his psychoanalyst, Alexander Portnoy rants about everything that is bothering him. His complaints include his childhood and his family with an emphasis on his mother, his sexual fantasies and the problems that he has with women, and his obsessive feelings about his Judaism.
- Release date
- June 19, 1972
- Country of origin
- United States
Trailer
Cast
- Richard Benjamin as Alexander Portnoy
- Karen Black as The Monkey
- Lee Grant as Sophie Portnoy
- Jack Somack as Jack Portnoy
- Renée Lippin as Hannah Portnoy
- Jeannie Berlin as Bubbles Girardi
- Kevin Conway as Smolka
- Lewis J. Stadlen as Mandel
- Jill Clayburgh as Naomi, Girl in Israel
- Jessica Rains as Opening Girl
Crew
- Ernest Lehman · Director
- Philip Roth · Writer
- Ernest Lehman · Writer
- Ernest Lehman · Producer
- Michel Legrand · Composer
- Philip H. Lathrop · Cinematographer
- Sam O'Steen · Editor
- Gordon Scott · Editor
- Robert F. Boyle · Production designer