• Jan 21, 2000
  • 104 min
  • Full-HD

Joe Gould's Secret (2000)

Around 1940, New Yorker staff writer Joe Mitchell meets Joe Gould, a Greenwich Village character who cadges meals, drinks, and contributions to the Joe Gould Fund and who is writing a voluminous Oral History of the World, a record of 20,000 conversations he's overheard. Mitchell is fascinated with this Harvard grad and writes a 1942 piece about him, "Professor Seagull," bringing Gould some celebrity and an invitation to join the Greenwich Village Ravens, a poetry club he's often crashed. Gould's touchy, querulous personality and his frequent dropping in on Mitchell for hours of chat lead to a breakup, but the two Joes stay in touch until Gould's death and Mitchell's unveiling of the secret.

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Ian Holm

Joe Gould

Stanley Tucci

Joe Mitchell

Hope Davis

Therese Mitchell

Sarah Hyland

Elizabeth Mitchell

Hallee Hirsh

Nora Mitchell

Celia Weston

Sarah

Patrick Tovatt

Harold Ross

Susan Sarandon

Alice Neel

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