00:00When the distinguished, award-winning American author Philip Roth brought out his fourth novel,
00:07the reaction of the literary world and the general public was immediate controversy.
00:12Here, a major writer had chosen to describe modern mores with absolute candor.
00:17Portnoy's Complaint quickly became the book everyone knew about.
00:21And now the most outspoken novel of our day is the film that says it all.
00:27With all the characters that made the book a public controversy and a literary achievement.
00:36Alexander Portnoy, a man with some problems.
00:42First among which one might mention Mary Jane Reed, known to her intimate friends as the Monkey.
00:48Wouldn't it be kind of marvelous someday to settle down in a country with somebody you really liked?
01:04Wouldn't there be something?
01:09Marry me.
01:13Please.
01:13And of course, there's the Portnoy family.
01:18Sophie, the mama.
01:19And what a mama.
01:20Jack, his father.
01:23Hannah, the sister.
01:26I want an answer from you.
01:28About what?
01:28About you in that bathroom, was it?
01:30I don't feel well.
01:32Will everybody leave me alone?
01:33Did you eat french fries after school?
01:35No.
01:36Is that why you're sick like this?
01:37No, I didn't.
01:38No, no, I didn't.
01:39For heaven's sake, isn't there any other subject we could just...
01:41How can a person digest this food around here?
01:43And there are some miscellaneous problems along the way.
01:47The kind of problems Portnoy just seems to collect.
01:52Better slip one of your rings onto the appropriate finger.
01:55You're a married woman here.
01:56I thought you'd never ask me.
01:58We'll reserve the room for us in the name of Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Mandel.
02:01Arnold?
02:02Yes, dear?
02:03We simply must take back with us some maple syrup for Mother Mandel.
02:08Yes, she loves to pour it on my conditions.
02:13It was some book.
02:14Now it's some movie.
02:19Would you please have a bottle of maple syrup sent to our room immediately?
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