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Unbelieveable

posted 15 years ago by hexiej46
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I grew up in CA, in the late 60's, early seventies and did live a "hippie" lifestle for awhile. This movie was so unreal. I do not know of any high school in any year that let kids smoke openly on campus as portrayed in this movie. And what bar is going to serve let alone allow a minor in,like the scene where Alex and her mom get propositioned by two guys at the bar.

The parents were suppose to be hippies, but he made it through medical school and became a doctor, all within the hippie movement time period. True hippies, did not want material things, or the life style of the average person, they wanted change in an unjust world. Actually the parents just seemed like very lacked and open parents, who smoke a little pot. The mom is just sleazy.

"Hippy" is a much more involved lifestyle then dipicted in this very innacurate film

[–] lindugh 12 years ago

No kidding! The story and characters were totally absurd, silly and unrelatable.

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[–] Sandman143 11 years ago

I was in high school from 74-78, and true, they didn't allow smoking everywhere, there were a number of outside areas where smoking was allowed. And at that time, due to the Vietnam War, the drinking age was 18, and I was easily able to get my girlfriend, who was 3 years younger, into bars and nightclubs without an ID. Things are much different these days.

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[–] Sitcom_Sally 11 years ago

My husband's school had a smoking yard in the 80s. I was served at any bar I wanted to enter in the 80s despite the fact that I definitely didn't look old enough. As another poster noted, the drinking age then was only 18, plus things were just different. We had no MADD or they were new enough I had never heard about them until my senior year. Neither of us lived in California nor were we raised by hippies. In fact, we had very conservative parents and lived in red states. Yet, smoking yards and lax bars. Go figure.

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