🎬 Movie

Joe Gould's Secret

Name: Joe Gould's Secret
Released: 2000
Duration: 104 min
Rating: 5.8
Cast: Ian Holm, Stanley Tucci, Hope Davis, Sarah Hyland, Hallee Hirsh

📅 2000 ⭐ 5.8 🕐 1h 44m

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Drama

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 touchy, querulous personality and his frequent dropping in on Mitchell for hours of chat lead to a breakup, but the two Joes stay in touch until Gould's death and Mitchell's unveiling of the secret.