Who is Julie Messinger in Such Good Friends / Portnoy's Complaint?

Dyan Cannon plays Julie Messinger in the film.

What is Such Good Friends / Portnoy's Complaint about?

SUCH GOOD FRIENDS, 1971, Paramount, 101 min. Dir. Otto Preminger. Dyan Cannon is reeling at the revelation that her comatose husband (Laurence Luckinbill) was sleeping around with many of her closest friends. We watch, hypnotized, as she commiserates and retaliates with her “friends,” doctors and relatives, including Jennifer O’Neil, James Coco, Louise Lasser, Nina Foch, Ken Howard and Burgess Meredith. PORTNOY’S COMPLAINT, 1972, Warner Bros., 101 min. Dir. Ernest Lehman. Since the book’s subject matter was largely composed of long monologues devoted to a young, Jewish man’s unhealthy obsession with - well, “spanking the monkey” - as well as his caustic relationship with his neurotic mother (played by Lee Grant), many believed it to be not only obscene, but also unfilmable. Richard Benjamin is the distressed young man and Karen Black plays one of his “love” interests, nicknamed, perhaps not uncoincidentally, “The Monkey.”

Such Good Friends / Portnoy's Complaint

Name: Such Good Friends / Portnoy's Complaint
Genre: Comedy,Drama
Rating: 31

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Who directed Such Good Friends / Portnoy's Complaint?: Otto Preminger

Who is Julie Messinger in Such Good Friends / Portnoy's Complaint?: Dyan Cannon plays Julie Messinger in the film.

What is Such Good Friends / Portnoy's Complaint about?: SUCH GOOD FRIENDS, 1971, Paramount, 101 min. Dir. Otto Preminger. Dyan Cannon is reeling at the revelation that her comatose husband (Laurence Luckinbill) was sleeping around with many of her closest friends. We watch, hypnotized, as she commiserates and retaliates with her “friends,” doctors and relatives, including Jennifer O’Neil, James Coco, Louise Lasser, Nina Foch, Ken Howard and Burgess Meredith.

PORTNOY’S COMPLAINT, 1972, Warner Bros., 101 min. Dir. Ernest Lehman. Since the book’s subject matter was largely composed of long monologues devoted to a young, Jewish man’s unhealthy obsession with - well, “spanking the monkey” - as well as his caustic relationship with his neurotic mother (played by Lee Grant), many believed it to be not only obscene, but also unfilmable. Richard Benjamin is the distressed young man and Karen Black plays one of his “love” interests, nicknamed, perhaps not uncoincidentally, “The Monkey.”