Bye Bye Braverman
"Four odd-ball buddies, friends of a writer who has had the poor taste to die without warning, join together to take a wildly irreverent ride from Greenwich Village to Brooklyn--only to discover that they sat through the wrong funeral!"
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DVD-R Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 35 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: May 5, 2009
- Originally Released: 1968
- Label: Warner Archive Collection (MOD)
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Joseph Wiseman, Sorrell Booke, George Segal, Jack Warden & Jessica Walter | |
Directed by | Sidney Lumet | |
Screenwriting by | Herbert Sargent | |
Composition by | Peter Matz | |
Director of Photography: | Boris Kaufman |
Entertainment Reviews:
The result, called Bye Bye Braverman, has a lot to talk about, and nothing much to say.
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TIME Magazine
Rating: B+ --
Satiric bittersweet funeral pic with a healthy dose of Jewish humor and a droll travelogue look at the NYC landscape.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Rating: B --
One of Sidney Lumet's most personal and Jewish films is not necessarily one of his best, but it's well acted.
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EmanuelLevy.Com
Sidney Lumet has probably exhausted the cinema possibilities of drawing people together out of separate lives to attend funerals in semisatirical circumstances. It hardly ever works in fiction, and it does not seem the best vehicle for his movies at all.
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New York Times
Rating: 2/4 --
Sidney Lumet's "Bye Bye Braverman" is a good movie gone wrong.
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Chicago Sun-Times
If the film meant to portray the four principals as basically clod characters, with some good points, it missed. If the idea was to portray them as basically good, with human frailties, insufficient depth was given along these lines, too.
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Variety
It's a little unfocused but bristles with Jewish wit and fine performances.
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Time Out
Description by OLDIES.com:
Serpico. Dog Day Afternoon. Prince of the City. In these gritty and distinguished films, director Sidney Lumet held a mirror up to his adopted hometown, New York. In Bye Bye Braverman, he uses a funhouse mirror. The result is hilarious, satiric, wise, giddy - and no less trenchant. Sparked by a blue-ribbon cast, the film follows four Jewish intellectuals jammed into one Volkswagen and squabbling nonstop en route to the funeral of their friend Leslie Braverman. What happens on the way (a fender bender with a Yiddish-spouting African-American cabbie, a stop at the wrong funeral) forms the plot, but the kvetching, joking, fuming and ultimately fearful quartet forms the heart of this smart, sardonic comedy.
Product Description:
BYE BYE BRAVERMAN is a bittersweet adaptation of Wallace Markfield's coldly cynical novel To an Early Grave. Braverman, an idealistic minor author, dies; his four best friends, writers who in one way or another have all sold out, decide to attend his funeral. The foursome includes a disenchanted magazine writer (George Segal), a poet (Jack Warden), a book reviewer (Sorrell Booke), and an embittered bellyacher (Joseph Wiseman). Taking a picaresque journey from Greenwich Village to Brooklyn, the quartet never quite gets to the funeral, but their odyssey unearths many a self-revelation and previously unspoken truth. Like its four leading characters, BYE BYE BRAVERMAN loses its way towards the end, bringing this otherwise insightful comedy/drama to a muddied conclusion.
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- Sales Rank: 21,410
- UPC: 883316174296
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