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New York in the Fifties
| Rating: | No Rating |
| Genre: | Documentary |
| Release Date: | January 1, 2001 |
| Running time: | 65 minutes |
| Cast: | Dan Wakefield |
| Director: | Betsy Blankenbaker |
| Producer: | Betsy Blankenbaker, Dorka Keehn |
Description: New York City in the 50s is seen as a hotbed of new artistic expression, free love, drinking, jazz, radical politics and psychoanalysis. The documentary follows writer Dan Wakefield as his restless rebellion forces him to leave his middle-class, conformist life in Indianapolis. He escapes to New York where he dreams of writing a novel, falls in love, questions the meaning of life through psychoanalysis and meets a group of like-minded souls. Interviews with writers, actors, musicians, artists and poets fill out the picture of the city and the era.
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