Portnoy's complaint
By: Warner Bros. Entertainment ; produced by Ernest Lehman in association with Sidney Beckerman ; written for the screen and directed by Ernest Lehman
Contributors: Benjamin, Richard, 1938- actor; Black, Karen, 1939-2013, actor; Grant, Lee, 1927- actor; Somack, Jack, actor; Berlin, Jeannie, 1949- actor; Clayburgh, Jill, actor; Conway, Kevin, actor; Stadlen, Lewis J., actor; Rains, Jessica, actor; Zee, Eleanor, 1931- actor; Lathrop, Philip, 1912-1995, director of photography; O'Steen, Sam, 1923-2000, editor of moving image work; Legrand, Michel, 1932- composer (expression), conductor; Roth, Philip; Warner Bros. Entertainment; Warner Communications Inc; Warner Home Video (Firm)
Series: WB Home Entertainment Group archive collection; Archive collection
Publisher: Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.
Published: 2012
Place of publication: [Burbank, CA]
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 101
Subjects: Drama; Mothers and sons; Man-woman relationships; Humor; Sex; Jewish men; Jewish families; Sex addicts; Young men; Psychoanalysis
Description: "Alexander Portnoy has a problem. He thinks he's living his life in the middle of a Jewish joke. Lying on a psychoanalyst's couch, Portnoy unravels his endless complaint with the one-track selfishness of an aging adolescent. He whines, he howls, he dredges his character and comes up empty-handed. For years, Alexander Portnoy has been led about by his libido...and has been unable to satisfy it. Now he can. He's met the Monkey, an uninhibited, air-headed model who -- heart, soul, and everything else -- is devotedly Portnoy's. So why isn't he happy? "So what's to be happy about?" That response underscores this outlandish spoof of sexuality and ingrained guilt."--Container
Notes: Originally released as a motion picture in 1972.

Based on the novel by Phillip Roth.

Director of photography, Philip Lathrop ; editing, Sam O'Steen, Gordon Scott ; music composed and conducted by Michel Legrand.

Richard Benjamin, Karen Black, Lee Grant, Jack Somack, Jeannie Berlin, Jill Clayburgh, D.P. Barnes, Francesca De Sapio, Kevin Conway, Lewis Stadlen, Renée Lippin, Jessica Rains, Eleanor Zee.

Rating: R.

DVD; widescreen, 16x9 letterbox (2.40:1); mono.

In English.