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Overview

User Rating:
5.8/10   797 votes
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Director:
Barry Shear
Writers:
Robert Thom (screenplay)
Robert Thom (story)
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Release Date:
29 May 1968 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama | Horror | Sci-Fi more
Tagline:
If you're thirty, you're through! more
Plot:
Max Flatow is a precocious, social miscreant who has a way with home-made explosives. When he tires of these... more | add synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for Oscar. Another 1 win & 1 nomination more
User Comments:
Really radically far-out!!!! more (40 total)

Cast

  (Credited cast)

Shelley Winters ... Mrs. Daphne Flatow
Christopher Jones ... Max Jacob Flatow Jr alias Frost
Diane Varsi ... Sally LeRoy
Hal Holbrook ... Sen. Johnny Fergus
Millie Perkins ... Mary Fergus

Richard Pryor ... Stanley X
Bert Freed ... Max Jacob Flatow Sr.
Kevin Coughlin ... Billy Cage
Larry Bishop ... The Hook, Abraham
Michael Margotta ... Jimmy Fergus

Ed Begley ... Sen. Allbright
Salli Sachse ... Hippie mother
Kellie Flanagan ... Young Mary Fergus
Don Wyndham ... Joseph Fergus
May Ishihara ... Fuji Elly
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Additional Details

MPAA:
Rated R for drug content. (2003 re-rating)
Runtime:
94 min | West Germany:91 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
Finland:K-12 (cut) (1970) (re-rating) | Finland:K-16 (cut) (1969) (original rating) | Sweden:15 | USA:Approved | USA:GP (re-rating) (1971) | USA:R (re-rating) (1968) | USA:R (re-rating) (2003) | West Germany:16

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Trivia:
"The Shape of Things to Come", written by Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil, was a #22 chart hit for Max Frost and the Troopers (a "studio group", made up of session musicians) in 1968. In 2006, it was featured in commercials for Target Stores. more
Quotes:
Mrs. Daphne Flatow: [hysterically, as she is arrested for being "overage"] No, no, no, I'm young! I'm young! I'm VERY young! I'm VERY YOUNG!
The Hook, Abraham: [unimpressed, taking her into custody] Lady... you are the biggest "mother" of them all.
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Movie Connections:
Featured in Brady Bunch Home Movies (1995) (TV) more
Soundtrack:
Psychedelic Senate more

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5 out of 6 people found the following comment useful.
Really radically far-out!!!!, 9 September 1999
10/10
Author: Ms. V from Sacramento, CA

Very much in and of its time. But outrageously good nonetheless. I truly enjoyed the acting by everybody involved--particularly Christopher Jones, Shelley Winters, Diane Varsi, Ed Begley, Sr., Hal Holbrook AND Richard Pryor.

Also a significant key to the film was the music of the legendary songwriting duo of Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil, featuring what was, in my estimation, very unsung (excuse the pun) gems which rank right up with ALL their

classics. Just as the recent political satire, "Bulworth", spoke to its times (which are still very much current, by the way), this movie does exactly the same thing.

The clear-cut divisions of generationalism are clearly conspicuous in this film. This movie captured the spirited groove of the late '60s when youth was roaring loudly and taking a stand against the establishment.

For anyone looking for a outrageous take of some of the events of the time, coupled with a hard, aching, laugh-out-loud reaction, this is as great a place as any to go.

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