WILLIE AND PHIL
Directed and written by
Paul Mazursky
The guys (Michael Ontkean and Ray Sharkey) meet at a Greenwich Village revival showing of Jules and Jim early in the last decade. They are impressed by it, and before long their lives imitate cinematic art. Margot Kidder turns up in Washington Square Park to play the Jeanne Moreau role in their lives, and in due course they establish their own not ménage à troistrilateral commission. Thereupon their lives are laid out in tedious, unedifying detail.
Willie, a teacher, looks for spiritual sustenance by dropping out in variously predictable ways (subsistence farming, for example, or...
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