(rated R)
The true story of Joe Gould, who dedicated his life to true stories, and of Joseph Mitchell, who would tell Joe Gould’s story. The two men meet in the vibrant New York City of the early 1940s. Mitchell is a writer for The New Yorker who comes upon the New Yorker: Gould, an eccentric bohemian author whose life’s work is “The Oral History Of Our Times,” a transcription of hundreds of conversations, remarks and essays about what he has seen in and around the city. Stan Tucci directs and reteams with “Big Night’s Ian Holm as “Gould” for this next romantic period piece. Tucci shows he can handle direction but the story lacks the subject matter of “Big Nights.”
The true story of Joe Gould, who dedicated his life to true stories, and of Joseph Mitchell, who would tell Joe Gould’s story. The two men meet in the vibrant New York City of the early 1940s. Mitchell is a writer for The New Yorker who comes upon the New Yorker: Gould, an eccentric bohemian author whose life’s work is “The Oral History Of Our Times,” a transcription of hundreds of conversations, remarks and essays about what he has seen in and around the city. Stan Tucci directs and reteams with “Big Night’s Ian Holm as “Gould” for this next romantic period piece. Tucci shows he can handle direction but the story lacks the subject matter of “Big Nights.”