Remembering the Summer of Love
by leavey-2 | created - 07 Jul 2017 | updated - 10 Jul 2017 | PublicIn July 2017 we're celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love, a social phenomenon that occurred during the summer of 1967 when mostly young people sporting hippie fashions of dress and behavior, first converged in San Francisco's neighborhood Haight-Ashbury and later in many other places in the US, Canada and Europe.
The hippies, sometimes called flower children, generally opposed the Vietnam War and materialist values of modern life. A few were interested in politics; others were concerned more with art or religious and meditative practices. All were advocating peace and love.
Which movie, taking place against the backdrop of the Summer of Love, is your favorite?
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1. Hair (1979)
18 | 121 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
Claude Bukowski leaves the family ranch in Oklahoma for New York where he is rapidly embraced into the hippie group of youngsters led by Berger, yet he's already been drafted. He soon falls in love with Sheila Franklin, a rich girl but still a rebel inside.
Director: Milos Forman | Stars: John Savage, Treat Williams, Beverly D'Angelo, Annie Golden
Votes: 34,114 | Gross: $15.28M
2. Forrest Gump (1994)
PG | 142 min | Drama, Romance
The presidencies of Kennedy and Johnson, the events of Vietnam, Watergate and other historical events unfold through the perspective of an Alabama man with an IQ of 75, whose only desire is to be reunited with his childhood sweetheart.
Director: Robert Zemeckis | Stars: Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise, Sally Field
Votes: 1,742,016 | Gross: $330.25M
3. The Doors (1991)
R | 140 min | Biography, Drama, Music
The story of the famous and influential 1960s rock band The Doors and its lead singer and composer, Jim Morrison, from his days as a UCLA film student in Los Angeles, to his untimely death in Paris, France at age 27 in 1971.
Director: Oliver Stone | Stars: Val Kilmer, Meg Ryan, Kyle MacLachlan, Frank Whaley
Votes: 81,837 | Gross: $35.18M
4. Easy Rider (1969)
18+ | 95 min | Adventure, Drama
Two bikers head from L.A. to New Orleans through the open country and desert lands, and along the way they meet a man who bridges a counter-culture gap they are unaware of.
Director: Dennis Hopper | Stars: Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Jack Nicholson, Antonio Mendoza
Votes: 97,001 | Gross: $41.73M
5. The Graduate (1967)
14A | 106 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A disillusioned college graduate finds himself torn between his older lover and her daughter.
Director: Mike Nichols | Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft, Katharine Ross, William Daniels
Votes: 248,554 | Gross: $104.95M
6. Across the Universe (2007)
14A | 133 min | Drama, Fantasy, History
The music of The Beatles and the Vietnam War form the backdrop for the romance between an upper-class American girl and a poor Liverpudlian artist.
Director: Julie Taymor | Stars: Evan Rachel Wood, Jim Sturgess, Joe Anderson, Dana Fuchs
Votes: 104,673 | Gross: $24.34M
7. Psych-Out (1968)
101 min | Drama
A deaf runaway arrives in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury hippie district looking for her missing brother.
Director: Richard Rush | Stars: Susan Strasberg, Dean Stockwell, Jack Nicholson, Bruce Dern
Votes: 2,318
8. Serpico (1973)
R | 130 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
An honest New York cop named Frank Serpico blows the whistle on rampant corruption in the force only to have his comrades turn against him.
Director: Sidney Lumet | Stars: Al Pacino, John Randolph, Jack Kehoe, Biff McGuire
Votes: 105,455 | Gross: $29.80M
9. Valley of the Dolls (1967)
18A | 123 min | Drama, Music, Romance
Film version of Jacqueline Susann's best-selling novel chronicling the rise and fall of three young women in show business.
Director: Mark Robson | Stars: Barbara Parkins, Patty Duke, Paul Burke, Sharon Tate
Votes: 7,233 | Gross: $44.43M
10. The Boat That Rocked (2009)
14A | 135 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
A band of rogue DJs that captivated Britain, playing the music that defined a generation and standing up to a government that wanted classical music, and nothing else, on the airwaves.
Director: Richard Curtis | Stars: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bill Nighy, Nick Frost, Michael Hadley
Votes: 105,825 | Gross: $7.99M
11. I Love You, Alice B. Toklas! (1968)
A | 92 min | Comedy, Romance
A thirty-something square falls in love with a hippie and decides to "drop out" himself.
Director: Hy Averback | Stars: Peter Sellers, Jo Van Fleet, Leigh Taylor-Young, Joyce Van Patten
Votes: 2,799
12. The Trip (II) (1967)
82 min | Drama
After his wife leaves him, a disillusioned director dives into the drug scene, trying anything his friend suggests.
Director: Roger Corman | Stars: Peter Fonda, Susan Strasberg, Bruce Dern, Dennis Hopper
Votes: 4,283
13. Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999)
PG | 95 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Dr. Evil is back and has invented a new time machine that allows him to go back to the 1960s and steal Austin Powers' mojo, inadvertently leaving him "shagless".
Director: Jay Roach | Stars: Mike Myers, Heather Graham, Michael York, Robert Wagner
Votes: 212,545 | Gross: $206.04M
14. Zabriskie Point (1970)
PA | 113 min | Drama
At Zabriskie Point, United States' lowest point, two perfect strangers meet; an undergraduate dreamer and a young hippie student who start off an unrestrained romance, making love on the dusty terrain.
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni | Stars: Mark Frechette, Daria Halprin, Paul Fix, G.D. Spradlin
Votes: 14,197 | Gross: $1.05M
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