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Writers:
Jean-Claude Carrière (writer)
Milos Forman (writer)
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Release Date:
17 May 1971 (Sweden) more
Plot:
Unable to deal with her parents, Jeannie Tyne runs away from home. Larry and Lyne Tyne search for her... more | add synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for 6 BAFTA Film Awards. Another 2 wins & 2 nominations more
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(6 articles)
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Absolutely Delightful! more (18 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Lynn Carlin | ... | Lynn Tyne | |
| Buck Henry | ... | Larry Tyne | |
| Georgia Engel | ... | Margot | |
| Tony Harvey | ... | Tony | |
| Audra Lindley | ... | Ann Lockston | |
| Paul Benedict | ... | Ben Lockston | |
| Vincent Schiavelli | ... | Schiavelli | |
| David Gittler | ... | Jamie | |
| Ike Turner | ... | Himself (as The Ike and Tina Turner Revue) | |
| Tina Turner | ... | Herself (as The Ike and Tina Turner Revue) | |
| Linnea Heacock | ... | Jeannie Tyne | |
| Rae Allen | ... | Mrs. Divito | |
| Frank Berle | ... | Committee Man | |
| Philip Bruns | ... | Policeman (as Phillip Bruns) | |
| Gail Busman | ... | Nancy Lockston |
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93 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Mono (Westrex Recording System)
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Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA more
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Georgia Engel's debut. more
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Long Term Physical Effects more
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This is one of the most curiously delightful films I have ever seen. From the first few minutes until it's very end, 'Taking Off' offers an uniquely gentle vision of the confused 70s generation, it's hopes and wishes, and their problematic relationships with their respective, old-fashioned, hypocritical parents. Larry and Lynn Tyne are the heads of a typical american family, with their respective neurosis and worries targeted to their daughter Jeannie, lovely Linnea Hancock, and her taking drugs and the company that surrounds her. As she 'takes off' from home, their parents begin to seek for her, and as the seek continues, their degree of closeness is increased, while them both become absolutely degenerate and carefree - as they judge the new generation to be.
Forman presents a simple story that smoothly develops itself into a thoughtful character study about the gap of generations, presented in a fashion never seen before, and most enjoyable, scoring once again by bringing his innovative directing style from Europe to America for the first time, and with a modest budget and unknown stars, with the honorable exception of Buck Henry, Ike and Tina Turner and a very, very young Carly Simon( Singing A Remarkable Ballad, That Goes Like This - Long Term Physical Effects Are Not Yet Known... So, I'll Just Take Another Drag, And Just Get Stoned!(...) Short Term Physical Effects Are So Groovey!)
You may glimpse a young Jessica Harper during my favorite sequence, the audition one. The characters you'll find during this are simply... unforgettable. :)
So, just enjoy this underrated gem, 'with a smile on your face and a heart to embrace', a faithful portrait of youth, hypocrisy, and seemingly contained parents.