Youth's existential crisis comes across as hollow

THOMAS Webb (Callum Turner) is a recent college graduate in his early 20s, adrift in Manhattan. He is the subject of the New York indie drama The Only Living Boy in New York.

Pierce Brosnan plays his successful, disapproving book publisher father Ethan, who belittles his writing aspirations and hectors him to get a real job. Cynthia Nixon is his depressive mother Judith. In their Upper West Side apartment the parents throw tony dinner parties where rich and attractive literary types quip to the sounds of clinking wine glasses.

Jeff Bridges is the mystery neighbour, WF, he befriends upon moving out on his own to the Lower East Side, presumably to escape tiresome movie clichés like the aforementioned dinner.