Bernard Chanticleer (Peter Kastner) is a very nice young man anxious to step out into the "adult world." His plan is to move out of his parents' Long Island house into an eighth-floor Greenwich Village walkup - and try to convince someone to share his new "liberated lifestyle" with him. You're a Big Boy Now was Francis Ford Coppola's UCLA Film School Master's thesis - and a hilarious, high-speed debut in film comedy for the future maker of The Godfather and Apocalypse Now. Fresh off A Patch of Blue, Elizabeth Hartman bewitchingly plays the free spirit who tempts Bernard. Karen Black makes her own screen debut as the love object that lovesick Bernard overlooks and Geraldine Page nearly steals the show with her Academy Award-nominated performance as Bernard's possessive mother.

In this early comedy from filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola, virginal 19-year-old Bernard Chanticleer (Peter Kastner) escapes his sheltered life with Mom and Dad (Geraldine Page and Rip Torn) and moves to a New York City rooming house. One night after work, Bernard meets a beautiful go-go dancer, Barbara Darling (Elizabeth Hartman). But his landlady, Miss Thing (Julie Harris), keeping a careful watch on Bernard for his mother, tries to thwart his independence. Coppola directs at a wacky, fun pace, and the music of the Lovin' Spoonful creates just the right 1960s tone.