from October Films
Directed by
Stanley Tucci
Starring
Ian Holm (Joe Gould)
Stanley Tucci (Joseph Mitchell)
Hope Davis (Therese Mitchell)
Steve Martin (Charlie Duell)
Susan Sarandon (Alice Neel)
Patricia Clarkson (Vivian Marquie)
Hallee Hirsh (Nora)
Ben Shenkman
Written by
Joseph Mitchell (books Professor Seagull, Joe Gould's Secret)
Howard A. Rodman
Rated: 
(for some language and brief nudity)
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 With
Joe Gould's Secret, filmmaker Stanley Tucci takes you into the
poignant and sometimes humorous world of New York City in the
1940s. Joe Gould's Secret is the true story of two men, one of
whom would tell the other's story: famed The New Yorker writer
Joseph Mitchell and New York bohemian Joe Gould.
It was a time when artists and writers often gathered together
in an area of the city known as Greenwich Village, and a time
when Joseph Mitchell (Stanley Tucci) was publishing some of his
best work. One day, the softspoken writer encounters Joe Gould
(Ian Holm). Yankee-born and Harvard-educated, the disheveled
Gould is a scholar of the NYC streets. Gould's life's work is
"The Oral History of Our Time," a transcription of
hundreds of conversations, remarks, and essays about what he
has seen and heard.
"Every day," writes Mitchell in The New Yorker,
"even when he has a bad hangover or even when he is weak
and listless from hunger, Joe Gould writes in school composition
books." Holding no job, Gould depends on friends and well-wishers,
welcoming contributions to "the Joe Gould Fund."
After Mitchell's story appears in The New Yorker, Gould becomes
a minor celebrity. As the dynamics between the two men shift,
their relationship will consume Mitchell for years to come -
as he becomes the keeper of Joe Gould's secret.
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