![]() Via flashbacks, we learn about his affairs with Bubbles Girardi, the daughter of a local hoodlum leftist Israeli Naomi, whom he attempts to rape and gentile Mary Jane Reid, whose nickname "Monkey" reflects her remarkable agility at achieving a variety of sexual positions. The film focuses on the trials and tribulations of Alexander Portnoy, a Jewish man employed as the assistant commissioner of human opportunity for New York City.ĭuring a session with his psychoanalyst (who never speaks during the film), he explores his childhood, his relationship with his overbearing mother, his sexual fantasies and desires, his problems with women, and his obsession with his own religion. His screenplay is based on the bestselling 1969 novel of the same name by Philip Roth. ![]() Portnoy's Complaint is a 1972 American comedy film written and directed by Ernest Lehman. ![]()
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