You're a Big Boy Now (1967) part 4 of 11

Bernard Chanticleer's father gives him two simple words of advice: "Grow up." Bernard knows that his first step is to find a girl who's "willing," but he passes up a sure thing, Amy Partlett, for a more elusive goal. Her name is Barbara Darling, an inscrutable go-go dancer. More than a few obstacles keep Bernard from his dream world. There's his doting mother, who mails him locks of her hair and weeps at the thought of her baby as a man; there's a malicious rooster, trained to attack pretty girls, patrolling the halls of his New York City rooming house; and most of all, there's Barbara herself. She turns out to be a man hater, emotionally scarred by the lecherous wooden-legged hypnotherapist who "counseled" her in high school. All in all, Bernard finds himself in an improbable universe with a calculated clumsiness designed to evoke his confusing coming-of-age

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• you're a big boy now
• geraldine page
• rip torn
• peter kasner
• julie harris
• karen black
• elizabeth hartman

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Watching this movie it's still hard to believe that both characters Barbara Darling & Selina D'arcey from A Patch of Blue are played by the same person Elizabeth Hartman. The transformation she made in this movie was like going from night to day. Or should I say from day to night.