Bye Bye Braverman (1968)
Directed by Sidney Lumet
Genres - Comedy |
Sub-Genres - Ensemble Film |
Release Date - Feb 21, 1968 (USA - Unknown) |
Run Time - 94 min. |
Countries - United States |
MPAA Rating - NR
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Synopsis by Hal Erickson
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.
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death, friendship, reminiscence, funeral, intellectual