Legendary writer-director and four-time Academy Award-nominee, Paul Mazursky brings you this captivating coming-of-age story set in 1953. Aspiring to an acting career, young Larry Lapinsky (Lenny Baker) removes himself from his clingy Brooklyn mother (Shelly Winters) and escapes to bohemian, sexually liberated Greenwich Village. There he meets a new cast of characters, including a wildly pretentious actor (Jeff Goldblum), an oversexed poet (Christopher Walken) and a troubled girl (Lois Smith). Through it all, Larry may just make peace with his past and find a promising new future - in California!