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A Thousand Clowns

When Nick is twelve years old, he moves into an apartment with his Uncle Murray, a Mr. Micawber-like Dickensian character, in the hopes of nothing coming to light. What shows up is a social worker who falls over over heels in love with Murray and just a smidgeon in love with Nick. During the course of the film, the child welfare workers attempt to persuade Murray to conform to society's expectations (as a condition of allowing him to retain Nick), and Murray's nephew, who had previously admired his uncle's iconoclastic attitude to life, attempts to act as a mediator. The uncle's readiness to submit to society in order to save the relationship, on the other hand, causes him concern when he succeeds.

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