Movie review - "Goodbye Columbus" (1969) **

This is highly regarded by some critics and was a big hit in its day but the allure escaped me. Richard Benjamin is well cast and Ali MacGraw stunning good looking but I foun it all a bit bleh. It has a frankness depicting sex (the act and talking about it and it's consequences) which would have seemed fresh at the time. It all feels overly familiar: Jack Klugman as the unimpressed rich dad, Nan Martin as the snobbish mum - and Benjamin's slacker hero not that particularly interesting. It ends on a flat note. The movie felt like a rip off of The Graduate and I wasn't wild about that either. But it does have its fans.