
Portnoy's Complaint
Comedy
Drama
4.5 / 10
June 19, 1972
1h 41m
Director: Ernest Lehman
During a session with his psychoanalyst, Alexander Portnoy rants about everything that is bothering him. His complaints include his childhood and his family with an emphasis on his mother, his sexual fantasies and the problems that he has with women, and his obsessive feelings about his Judaism.
Cast

Richard Benjamin
Alexander Portnoy

Karen Black
Mary Jane Reid a.k.a. Monkey

Lee Grant
Sophie Portnoy

Jack Somack
Jack Portnoy

Renée Lippin
Hannah Portnoy

Jeannie Berlin
Bubbles Girardi

Kevin Conway
Smolka

Lewis J. Stadlen
Mandel (as Lewis Stadlen)

Jill Clayburgh
Naomi
Jessica Rains
Opening Girl

Francesca De Sapio
Lina, Rome Prostitute
William Pabst
Clerk at Inn