Cheap Goodbye, New York (Video) (Amos Kollek) Price

Related Products

Customer Reviews of Goodbye, New York

A mess
Julie Hagerty's finest hour will always be her doggedly literal-minded stewardess in "Airplane" ("He's in the hospital." "The hospital? What is it?" "It's a big place with lots of sick people. But that's not important right now.") This film, on the other hand, which slunk onto my TV screen late one night as if the national television service were rightly ashamed of it, is not going to generate any joyful grins, except perhaps from the Israeli Tourist Board.

The premise is confused to begin with. Hagerty discovers her alarmingly smooth-haired husband in bed with another woman and promptly jets off to Paris. But by a less than hilarious series of circumstances, she ends up in Israel with no money and no luggage. She goes to work on a kibbutz (you'll sit stony-faced as she not very amusingly grapples with bunches of bananas.) More interested in painting her nails than working for the good of the homeland, she earns the disrespect of her flatmate (Aviva Ger, delectable but with the perplexed intensity of someone more used to playing Hedda Gabler in the national theatre than acting in a "gentle comedy".) She meets various men, all of whom turn out dodgy. Eventually she sort-of gets together with this nice guy (Amos Kollek).

Kollek has a pleasant onscreen manner, dry and hangdog, like an even more Jewish Woody Allen without the worry lines. But the script is a rambling mess, a string of anecdotes with no forward movement, and the direction is more daytime-soap-quality than movie standard. When not being merely baffling in its inconsequentiality, it's confused as to whether it's a farce or a movie about How Julie Got Her Groove Back. There are lots of nice shots of lakes and Jerusalem and that's about it. Surely Israel can make better movies than this.

---

Goodbye, New York...Hello, great movie!!
Well, to me, "Goodbye, New York" is a sweet, romantic comedy that is almost like "Sleepless in Seattle", but not quite. "Goodbye, New York" has Julie Hagerty's character playing an angry New Yorker who finds out that her husband has been cheating on her with another woman and leaves him. She gets on a plane to Paris, but eventually ends up in Tel Aviv and joins a group in the process. This is one of Julie Hagerty's better films to me, even though she was great in both "Airplane" movies and "What About Bob?". This is also kind of ironic because Julie is the only major star in the film. But that doesn't matter because this movie has comedy and a little bit of drama. "Goodbye, New York" also has a little bit of heart as well. Truly one of the better Julie Hagerty movies.