Named after a Simon and Garfunkel song, The Only Living Boy in New York isn't shy about being a movie that leeches from other, better pieces of art. This is confirmed during Jeff Bridges' opening voice-over, which name-drops Yeats and Lou Reed; the movie goes on to reference The Graduate , Bob Dylan's "Visions of Johanna," J.D. Salinger, and every Woody Allen film set in Manhattan-all in service of a dippy story about a young white guy who's feeling kinda angsty about all of this "life" stuff.
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