Rich Kids

Director: Robert M. Young

1975 / 101min / 35mm

One of the great, rarely screened New York City movies of the 1970s, the Robert Altman-produced Rich Kids is the story of two precocious Upper West Side pre-teens, Franny and Jamie (Trini Alvarado and Jeremy Levy), who’ve largely been left to fend for themselves in the aftermath of the sexual revolution that’s turned their preoccupied, divorced parents’ lives upside down. A wistful comedy of upper-crust Manhattan mores, adult childishness, and children’s wisdom, and a time capsule from a disappeared NYC.