Hugely successful but impossibly neurotic songwriter Georgie Soloway is sliding into a mid-life crisis. He believes that all of his past romantic relationships have been destroyed not by his own failings but by the interference of the mysterious Harry Kellerman. Family, friends, and his psychiatrist cannot give him the help he seeks. When his father is diagnosed with a terminal illness, Georgie begins spending more and more time flying his personal aircraft, distancing himself physically, emotionally, and mentally from the real world.
Acting
Hoffman's tics and tremors at peak twitchy energy.
Writing
Herb Gardner's Broadway-honed dialogue, surreal and painfully specific.
Score
Shel Silverstein's songs that Georgie supposedly wrote—meta and melancholy.
Director
Ulu Grosbard
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Herb Gardner wrote this after his Broadway hit 'A Thousand Clowns'; the title alone made studio executives weep.
This flopped so hard in '71 that it became a cautionary tale—studios stopped trusting Hoffman to open experimental films until 'All the President's Men' saved him.
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