The Only Living Boy in New York is a 2017 American drama film directed by Marc Webb and written by Allan Loeb.

The film stars Callum Turner, Kate Beckinsale, Pierce Brosnan, Cynthia Nixon, Kiersey Clemons, and Jeff Bridges.

The film was released on August 11, 2017, by Roadside Attractions and Amazon Studios, receiving generally negative reviews.

When Thomas and Mimi socialize in a bar, he sees his publisher father, Ethan, kissing a woman, Johanna.

Fearing the affair would damage his mentally unstable mother, Judith, Thomas starts to follow Johanna.

Johanna reveals that she is an editor working with his father and recognizes Thomas from pictures in Ethan's office.

He tells her that since he was a child, he has aspired to be a writer, but Ethan told him that his essays were only "serviceable".

's absence Thomas finds a manuscript titled The Only Living Boy in New York in his apartment.

She shows him a news clipping/photograph that Ethan keeps in his office, of a younger Thomas winning a tennis match, with W.F.

Returning to his parents’ home, Thomas finds that Ethan has disclosed his affair to Judith and wants a divorce.

The site's consensus reads: "Narratively messy and cloying, The Only Living Boy in New York is a romantic trifle that audiences won't want to give a second date".

[10] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 33 out of 100, based on 23 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews".

[11] Writing for Rolling Stone, Peter Travers unfavorably compared the film to The Graduate, giving it one and a half stars out of four and saying, "Even the best actors – and this coming-of-age movie boasts a handful of them – can't fight this much tin-eared dialogue.