You’re a Big Boy Now

Bernard ‘Big Boy’ Chanticleer is almost twenty, lives with his parents and has recently started working at the New York Public Library. When his parents kick him out, he has to fend for himself in the urban jungle. He quickly gets to know the New York nightlife ...

With his early work, the 27-year-old Coppola not only proved he had a good eye for an excellent cast, but also demonstrated his imagination and courage to experiment formally with YOU'RE A BIG BOY NOW. The film plays with visual symbols, numerous quotes from B-pictures and melodramas and, above all, with the moral concepts of the USA in the 1960s in a way that had never been seen before.