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.
Stanley Tucci
Director
Howard A. Rodman
Writer
Ian Holm
Joe Gould
Stanley Tucci
Joe Mitchell
Hope Davis
Therese Mitchell
Sarah Hyland
Elizabeth Mitchell
Hallee Hirsh
Nora Mitchell
Celia Weston
Sarah
Patrick Tovatt
Harold Ross
Susan Sarandon
Alice Neel
Patricia Clarkson
Vivian Marquie
Fast Girls60%
Come Sunday58%
Hungry Hearts65%
Gigi & Nate76%
Adopt a Highway66%
Starving in Suburbia65%
Conversations with God68%
What Maisie Knew71%
Won't Back Down61%
Richard Jewell74%
Fatima72%
Doubt72%
Dead Poets Society82%
Tetro67%
Jonathan Livingston Seagull60%
The Last Bus64%
Skin64%
Speak70%
TalhotBlond63%
The Pumpkin Eater67%
