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‘The Only Living Boy in New York’ Closes Out the Summer Season of KCET’s Cinema Series on August 1

July 25, 2017
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After graduating from college and moving to Manhattan’s Lower East Side, young Thomas Webb (Callum Turner) befriends an alcoholic neighbor (Jeff Bridges) who dispenses sage wisdom alongside shots of whiskey. His world soon comes crashing down when he learns that his long-married father (Pierce Brosnan) is having an affair with a seductive younger woman (Kate Beckinsale). Determined to break up the relationship, Thomas winds up sleeping with her, launching a chain of events that will change everything that he thinks he knows about his family and himself. Actress Kate Beckinsale and Director Marc Webb will join KCET Cinema Series and Must See Movies host Pete Hammond for a Q&A immediately following the screening.

Allan Loeb says he was only days away from abandoning his hopes of becoming a working screenwriter when The Only Living Boy in New York changed everything. After a less-than-successful decade in Hollywood, Loeb was down to his last few bucks and decided to leave Los Angeles for New York City to work on an idea he had been nurturing: a coming-of-age-story with a literary twist, about a young man in Manhattan. “If that idea didn’t work out, I figured I would leave the business,” he recalls. “I wanted it to be a love letter to New York, a portrait of the city that I had grown to love while visiting in the ’70s and ’80s, the New York drenched in art, music and literature.”

The summer season of the KCET Cinema Series is generously sponsored by the James and Paula Coburn Foundation. The season began on June 6 and runs through August 1. Prorated season passes as well as individual admissions for $25 each are available at the door. The film begins at 7 p.m. at the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica (1328 Montana Ave, Santa Monica, CA 90403). Nearby street parking is available.

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