# Bright Lights, Big City movie **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 30, 2019, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bright-lights-big-city-movie/837859 "2019-07-30T04:56:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mike\_Mabes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mike_mabes/32/1782_2.png) [@Mike\_Mabes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mike_Mabes)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2019, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bright-lights-big-city-movie/837859/1 "2019-07-30T04:56:03Z")
I read the book when I was about 20 and loved it. Just reread it. I had a brief stint with the Bolivian Marching Powder. I saw the movie when it first came out and only liked it OK. How often do you see a film adaptation of a book you love and not feel that way? Anyway I have watched the film a couple of times recently and I really love it now. And Michael J. Fox, that scene where he is at Swoozie Kurtz’s apartment, drinking wine and telling her the story of his break-up with his wife, man that is some damn fine acting. Most actors overplay being drunk but he nails it. “You are not the kind of guy who would be at a place like this at this time of the morning. And you cannot say that the terrain is entirely unfamilar, although the details are fuzzy.” ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2019, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bright-lights-big-city-movie/837859/2 "2019-07-30T18:26:05Z")
Never read the book/saw the movie, but I really enjoyed the [Spy](https://openlibrary.org/books/OL2183474M/Spy_notes_on_McInerney%27s_bright_lights_big_city_Janowitz%27s_slaves_of_New_York_Ellis%27_less_than_zero_) [Notes](http://tech.mit.edu/V109/N49/spy.49a.html) version.