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Overview

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5.8/10   805 votes
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Director:
Writers:
Robert Thom (screenplay)
Robert Thom (story)
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Release Date:
29 May 1968 (USA) more
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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:
The Sixties weren't ALL peace and love, baby more (40 total)

Cast

  (Credited cast)

Shelley Winters ... Mrs. Daphne Flatow
Christopher Jones ... Max Jacob 'Frost' Flatow Jr.
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
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1.85 : 1 more
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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:
American International Pictures originally offered the role of Max Frost to noted folk singer-songwriter Phil Ochs, who was known at the time to want to branch out into film work. However, after reading the screenplay, Ochs rejected it, stating the story presented the youth counterculture of the 1960s in a badly distorted light. more
Quotes:
Stanley X: [cupping his hand toward Allbright's ear, as they discuss lowering the voting age] They let th' OLD FOLKS in th' OLD FOLKS HOME vote! more
Movie Connections:
Featured in Brady Bunch Home Movies (1995) (TV) more
Soundtrack:
Shelley In Camp more

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The Sixties weren't ALL peace and love, baby, 25 September 2002
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Author: Rod Morgan from DC



Which came first, Robert Thom's Esquire novella or his screenplay? Doesn't matter - the premise of "the youth vote" (as if it were monolithic, a consistent mistake during the Sixties) working to overthrow the establishment and creating a fully functional dystopia was a winner from the first word. Immaculately filmed despite the shoestring budget and remarkably well-acted by an amazing cast, the New York Times referred to it as the only film that year to "get it" in terms of the impact of youth culture. Academy award nomination for editing, largely from clipping what appears to be Monterey Pop footage and overlaying our presidential candidate, Max Frost. A delight then, a delight now. Nothing can change the shape of things to come.

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