The Only Living Boy in New York

The Only Living Boy in New York

201789 min6.3 / 10

A morally complicated Manhattan drama about a young man navigating family betrayal and seduction, caught between judgment and desire.

When a young man learns that his overbearing father is having an affair, he tries to stop it, only to be seduced by the older woman as well.

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