When Thomas and Mimi socialize in a bar, Thomas sees his publisher father, Ethan, kissing a woman, Johanna. Fearing that the affair would damage his mentally unstable mother, Judith, Thomas starts to follow Johanna.
In this manner, is The Only Living Boy in New York a true story?
The Bridges character is real, but the whole movie is kind of a fantasy—at times a bizarre and off-putting one, at that. Thomas’ romantic tribulations amount to him whining in gussied-up language about getting friend-zoned, and his view of New York is tedious boilerplate about how the gentrified city has lost its soul.