Bye Bye Braverman (1968)
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Bye Bye Braverman is a bittersweet adaptation of Wallace Markfield's coldly cynical novel To an Early Grave. Braverman, an idealistic minor author, dies; his four best friends, writers who in one way or another have all sold out, decide to attend his funeral. The foursome includes a disenchanted magazine writer (George Segal), a poet (Jack Warden), a book reviewer (Sorrell Booke), and an embittered bellyacher (Joseph Wiseman). Taking a picaresque journey from Greenwich Village to Brooklyn, the quartet never quite gets to the funeral, but their odyssey unearths many a self-revelation and previously unspoken truth. Like its four leading characters, Bye Bye Braverman loses its way towards the end, bringing this otherwise insightful comedy/drama to a muddied conclusion. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- George Segal - Monroe Rieff
- Joseph Wiseman - Felix Ottensteen
- Jessica Walter - Inez Braverman
- Zohra Lampert - Etta Rieff
- Alan King - Rabbi
- Anthony Holland - Max Ottensteen
- Jack Warden - Barnet Weiner
- Sorrell Booke - Holly Levine
- Phyllis Newman - Myra Mandelbaum
- Godfrey Cambridge - Cab Driver
- Susan Wyler - Pilar
- Leib Lensky - Custodian
- Director(s):
- Sidney Lumet
- Writer(s):
- Herbert Sargent
- Producer(s):
- Sidney Lumet
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