standing in the background. All rights reserved. “The Only Living Boy in New York” opens in theaters on August 11. If “(500) Days of Summer” and the two “Amazing” Spider-Man movies didn’t make that obvious enough, Webb’s most recent movie prior to this month was “Gifted,” a schmaltzy (but reasonably satisfying) drama about a brilliant child who’s capable of doing college-level math. Fearing that the affair would damage his mentally unstable mother, Judith, Thomas starts to follow Johanna. Thomas Webb is a recent college graduate who is still trying to figure out what he wants to do with his life and has a one-sided crush on his friend Mimi. It is the eighth track from the duo's fifth and final studio album, Bridge over Troubled Water.The song was also issued as the B-side to the duo's "Cecilia" single. [7] On September 27, 2016, Kiersey Clemons joined the cast of the film. Did anyone else interact with him in that scene where they went to the market? reads from his new book The Only Living Boy in New York. [3] On November 4, 2014, Miles Teller joined the cast of the film. at the party and he tries to introduce him to his mother, but W.F. realized that he was in love with Judith, but stayed away. That’s especially true of the insultingly weak-willed female characters, whom screenwriter Allan Loeb (“Collateral Beauty,” “Rock of Ages”) manipulates to an extent that borders on misogyny. We rely on readers like you to uphold a free press. Here’s the hook for this hyper-metropolitan fairy tale, which is so deeply informed by male fantasy that it probably should have premiered on PornHub: A young man discovers that his dad is having an affair with Kate Beckinsale (sorry, Johanna), but his efforts to confront her result in a torrid affair of his own. (2017) Adrift in New York City, a recent college graduate's life is upended by his father's mistress. The movie doesn’t actually dip into the supernatural, but — like most of the things that Loeb has written, and like all of the things that Webb has directed — this story belongs to a parallel universe that exists in defiance of all known human behavior. Johanna tells Thomas that he is still a child who doesn't know anything and in fact he actually wants to sleep with her too. Sign up for our Email Newsletters here. The film shares the egocentrism of its hero, it echoes his inclination towards awing at the girls in his life instead of listening to them. The film stars Callum Turner, Kate Beckinsale, Pierce Brosnan, Cynthia Nixon, Kiersey Clemons, and Jeff Bridges. His father (Pierce Brosnan, lending the movie some major “Remember Me” vibes) is a severely clenched executive at one of the city’s biggest publishing houses, while his mother (Cynthia Nixon) is suffering from clinical depression.