Around 1940, New Yorker staff writer Joe Mitchell meets Joe Gould, a Greenwich Village character who cadges meals, drinks, and contributions to the Joe Gould Fund and who is writing a voluminous Oral History of the World, a record of 20,000 conversations he's overheard. Mitchell is fascinated with this Harvard grad and writes a 1942 piece about him, "Professor Seagull," bringing Gould some celebrity and an invitation to join the Greenwich Village Ravens, a poetry club he's often crashed. Gould's...
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Ian HolmJoe Gould
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Stanley TucciJoe Mitchell
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Hope DavisTherese Mitchell
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Sarah HylandElizabeth Mitchell
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Hallee HirshNora Mitchell
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Celia WestonSarah
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Patrick TovattHarold Ross
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Susan SarandonAlice Neel
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Patricia ClarksonVivian Marquie
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John TormeyHarry Kolis
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Jack O'ConnellChef
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Jerry MayerMinetta Bartender
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Nell CampbellTamar (Hostess)
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Ron RyanJack
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Allan CordunerFrancis McCrudden
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Merwin GoldsmithMonsieur Gerard
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Laura HughesDr. Kim Maxwell
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Steve MartinCharlie Duell
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James HanlonMike, Cop at Coffee Shop
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David WohlMax Gordon
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Julie HalstonSadie Gordon
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Aida TurturroWaitress
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Alice DrummondHelen
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Justine JohnstonMrs. Bagly
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Gordon Joseph WeissMan at Flophouse
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Andre BelgraderTeddy
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Gabor MoreaPawnbroker
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Ben ShenkmanDavid
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Katy HanszMargaret
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Mark CasellaCop at the Building Site
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Harry BuginAnne
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Lauren WardBetty
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Jessica WallingPhil (The Writer)
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Ben JonesSouthern Man at the Party
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Peter Francis JamesMan at Party
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Richard LittBartender
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Tom ForalMan in Gallery
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Leigh CarlsonJanet
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Hillary HickamGreenwich Village Raven (uncredited)