Madison West grad Marc Webb takes Manhattan | Movies
Characters in Madison West High School graduate Marc Webb ’s “The Only Living Boy in New York” complain at length that “New York has lost its soul.” They bemoan that Manhattan has lost its edge and become a playground for the super-rich, where rock clubs have been turned into spinning studios and mom-and-pop stores have become upscale boutiques. (Never mind that the characters are super-rich themselves.) But at least they still make New York movies like they used to. “Only Living Boy” is another literate, sharply observed tale of Manhattanites entangled in love, with each other and with their city. Although Allan Loeb’s screenplay contains some hard-to- swallow plot turns , a strong cast carries it past the eye rolls. Callum Turner plays Thomas Webb , a confident but aimless twentysomething who moves into an apartment on the Lower East Side to get as far away from his wealthy parents (Pierce Brosnan and Cynthia Nixon) on the Upper West Side . There he meets W.F. Ger...