You're a Big Boy Now

1966. USA. Directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Screenplay by Coppola, based on the novel by David Benedictus. With Elizabeth Hartman, Geraldine Page, Julie Harris, Rip Torn. So demented and daffy is this burlesque comedy that its 1966 press release can reasonably be described as understated: "Can a virginal young man, who uses roller skates to speed his way around the stacks of the public library, find happiness with a beautiful Off-Broadway actress, whose prize possession is the purloined wooden leg of a lecherous albino psychotherapist?" The twenty-seven-year-old Coppola hustled to make You're a Big Boy Now on his own terms, securing a whopping one million dollars from Seven Arts Productions, luring an immensely talented cast from the New York stage, and shooting on location around the city in a breakneck twenty-nine days. 96 min.