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Joe Gould's Secret

Summary: Around 1940, The New Yorker staff writer Joe Mitchell meets Joe Gould, a Greenwich Village character, who is writing a voluminous Oral History of the World, a record of twenty thousand conversations he's overheard.

Release Date: May 26, 2000

Genre: Drama

Director: Stanley Tucci

Writers: Joseph Mitchell

, Howard A. Rodman

Runtime: 1 h 44 min

MPAA: R

Production: Bohemian Productions, First Cold Press Productions, October Films

Distributor: USA Films

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 468,684

International: $ 25,466

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