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Worthless as a film, a gold mine as a period piece..

posted 15 years ago by imdb050106
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All the Woodstock hoopla made me nostalgic for 1969...I saw this film on sale for $3.99 (paid $3 too much) and bought it...Anyone who watches this film knows what they are getting themselves into - It shows the late 60's mentality, the clash of cultures, and why the whole thing collapsed into its own dung heap.

It's such an odd cast of characters..

It's strange to look at them, and know what is in their future. For Richard Dreyfuss - fame, money, drugs, and memory loss. Hard to believe what lay ahead for the cute 21 year old running around in purple jeans.

Films like this played in abandoned American downtowns, in decaying theater palaces where men had sex in the bathrooms.

Ah...the good old days....

[–] hooper-xxx 15 years ago

I'm sure that you've heard this on any number of occasions, but you're an @sshole.

[–] SoTyred 14 years ago

Oh come on don't be so hard on it. It's just a fun little 60's Disney-style film, and it doesn't pretend to be anything else. I also has a great cast.

I hadn't seen this since I was a kid in the 70's , but there's no way this would get a G rating today with the sexual jokes, the drunk maid, and drug references. This was prob considered 'ballsy' at the time...lol.

6/10

**Skin that Smokewagon and see what happens!** Tombstone

[–] brefane 14 years ago

It actually played at a matinee in a nice, respectable theater that still exists. There were no dirty old men, though I didn't cruise the theater, and the film in '69 was clearly kids' stuff like the equally bland Where Angels Go Trouble Follows(68) which I also recall seeing at a weekend matinee.