The read
A Balasaur Score of 51 out of 100, drawn from IMDb 5.3/10.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb5.3/10
13 audience votes
Key crew
- Ernest LehmanScreenplay
- Ernest LehmanDirector
- Michel LegrandOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Richard BenjaminAlexander Portnoy
- Karen BlackMary Jane Reid a.k.a. Monkey
- Lee GrantSophie Portnoy
- Jack SomackJack Portnoy
- Renée LippinHannah Portnoy
- Jeannie BerlinBubbles Girardi
- Kevin ConwaySmolka
- Lewis J. StadlenMandel (as Lewis Stadlen)
- Jill ClayburghNaomi
- Jessica RainsOpening Girl
- Francesca De SapioLina, Rome Prostitute
- William PabstClerk at Inn
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Themes
based on novel or booksexual obsessionnarrationrelationship problemssexual fantasyjudaismfear of commitmentjewish americanrelationshippsychiatristmale masturbationsexual dysfunction