Portnoy’s Complaint

Year: 1972

Runtime: 101 mins

Language: English

Director: Ernest Lehman

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During a psychoanalytic session, Alexander Portnoy delivers a monologue about his childhood, his mother, his sexual fantasies and relationships with women, and his obsessive preoccupation with his Jewish identity. The film adapts Philip Roth’s novel, using therapy to expose Portnoy’s desires, guilt and the clash between freedom and cultural norms.

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