Big boy, now you're gonna be a man!

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Movie
German title Big boy, now you're gonna be a man!
Original title You're a Big Boy Now
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1966
length 97 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Francis Ford Coppola
script Francis Ford Coppola
David Benedictus
production Phil Feldman
music Robert Prince
camera Andrew Laszlo
cut Aram Avakian
occupation

Big boy, now you're gonna be a man! is an American comedy film from the year 1966 by Francis Ford Coppola . It is the film adaptation of the novel You're a Big Boy Now by David Benedictus .

action

Bernard “Big Boy” Chanticleer has been working in the library for a month. But from the point of view of his father, IH Chanticleer, he constantly humiliates himself in front of him, which is why he asks him to find an apartment of his own with his own money. And so his mother Margery delivers him to his new apartment and wishes him all the best. He quickly got to know the New York nightlife full of porn cinemas, sex magazines, nudes and erotic shops. During a mishap with a vending machine showing adult films, he meets young Amy Partlett, with whom he spends the rest of his first night. The next morning, his colleague Raef del Grado tells him that Amy is very interested in him. But Bernard only has eyes for the beautiful actress Barbara Darling, whom he meets again and again by chance. And unfortunately Amy also learns on her date with Bernard that he is absolutely ignoring her in order to concentrate completely on Barbara. Amy tries to fight this by offering herself to him for a night of love, but after a mishap with Bernards landlady Miss Nora Thing's pet, that doesn't happen anymore.

Margery is horrified when she learns that Bernard is turning to young girls, so she demands that he spend more time with his family. But already when they go to the theater together, he meets Barbara again and falls all the more in love with the beautiful stranger, so that he writes her a romantic love letter. Barbara feels flattered and replies with an invitation to meet her at the New Year's after show party. Then it goes to Barbara's cloakroom, which is also her apartment. While she is flirting and playing with Bernard, he is virginal, clumsy and so shy that sex does not occur. But that doesn't stop him from moving in with her the next day and holding out her hand. But luck doesn't last long, because he quickly finds out that Raef slept with her and is now her boyfriend.

Worse than that, Bernard finds the constant visits to his mother, who has been looking for him ever since Miss Thing revealed the matter with Amy and the love letter to Barbara. Bernard returns to his family, where he is so angry that he is always being patronized, steals a valuable Gutenberg Bible and escapes through the city with it. Barbara stops him in a department store and so he ends up in prison. After receiving only “self-doubt”, “frustration” and “perpetual guilt” from his parents for over 20 years, he wants to stay there. But since Amy remains loyal to him and pays him bail , he leaves prison and has a happy time with her.

criticism

“A playful, fast-paced comedy about the contradictions between adaptation and obstinacy, reality and pleasure principle - with satirical swipes at the excesses of American matriarchy and the ossified moralism of the older generation. After 'This is only available in the Wild West' and 'Dementia 13' the third directorial work by the then 27-year-old cinema newcomer Francis Ford Coppola. "

- Lexicon of international film

“Turbulent eddy around the difficulties of puberty of a young man who hung on his mother's apron for too long. With the help of an imaginative camera and a handful of good actors, director Coppola makes an amusing and promising business card. Successful fun for fans of Anglo-Saxon humor who don't like the occasionally rough knitting pattern. "

- Protestant film observer

Soundtrack

All songs are from John Sebastian .

  1. You're a Big Boy Now
  2. Lonely (Amy's Theme)
  3. Wash Her Away (From the Discotheque)
  4. Kite Chase
  5. Try and Be Happy
  6. Peep show percussion
  7. Girl, Beautiful Girl (Barbara's Theme)
  8. Darling Be Home Soon
  9. Dixieland Big Boy
  10. Letter to Barbara
  11. Barbara's Theme [From the Discotheque]
  12. Miss Thing's Thang
  13. March
  14. final

Awards

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Big Boy, now you're going to be a man! In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  2. ↑ Evangelical Press Association Munich, Review No. 412/1967