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Comedies

Bye Bye Braverman

1h 34m

Directed by Sidney Lumet • 1968 • United States
Starring George Segal, Jack Warden, Joseph Wiseman

Director Sidney Lumet made his first foray into comedy with this wildly irreverent farce, rich in 1960s New York City flavor and Borscht Belt humor. When their buddy, the writer Leslie Braverman (“a second-rate talent of the highest order”), dies suddenly at the age of forty-one, a quartet of Jewish intellectuals pile into a Volkswagen Beetle and embark on a picaresque journey from Greenwich Village to Brooklyn to attend the funeral—with unexpected stops, oddball encounters, and much bittersweet philosophizing about everything from aging to the state of the world along the way.

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