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Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man (1962) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1962 · 145 mins · English
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- Directed by
- Martin Ritt
- Starring
- Jessica Tandy, Diane Baker, Paul Newman, Eli Wallach, Simon Oakland, Edward Binns
Nick Adams, son of a domineering mother and a doctor, leaves rural Michigan to travel the United States. He meets a punch‑drunk ex‑boxer, a telegrapher and an alcoholic burlesque advance man, then fails to get a reporting job in New York. Enlisting as an ambulance driver in World I, he bonds with fellow soldiers and falls for a nurse after being wounded, marking his growth into manhood.
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