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While searching for their runaway teenage daughter, the parents rediscover life's joys as they get acquainted with a self-help group for parents of vanished children.While searching for their runaway teenage daughter, the parents rediscover life's joys as they get acquainted with a self-help group for parents of vanished children.While searching for their runaway teenage daughter, the parents rediscover life's joys as they get acquainted with a self-help group for parents of vanished children.
- Nominated for 6 BAFTA Awards
- 2 wins & 9 nominations total
Ike Turner
- Self
- (as The Ike and Tina Turner Revue)
Tina Turner
- Self
- (as The Ike and Tina Turner Revue)
Philip Bruns
- Policeman
- (as Phillip Bruns)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaAfter the success of Easy Rider (1969), Universal Studios hit upon the idea to let young filmmakers make "semi-independent" films for low budgets in hopes of generating similar profits. The idea was to make five movies for low budgets ($1 million or less), not interfere in the filmmaking process, and give the directors final cut. The other movies were: The Hired Hand (1971), The Last Movie (1971), Silent Running (1972), Diary of a Mad Housewife (1970), Two-Lane Blacktop (1971) and Minnie and Moskowitz (1971).
- Quotes
Schiavelli: Any other questions?
Ben Lockston: Uh, yes, uh, I think we all had, uh, drinks with, uh, dinner, uh... dope and, uh, the alcohol... mix?
Schiavelli: Oh, *they'll mix*.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Before 'Taking Off': Milos Forman's Road to America (2011)
Featured review
Underrated gem.
Milos Forman's first American release is part social satire, part farcical look at two morose, middle-class parents (Buck Henry, Lynn Carlin, both outstanding)
who begin to enjoy life only after their teenage daughter (sad-eyed Linnea
Heacock) runs away. At once funny and touching, Forman and veteran Bunuel
collaborator Jean-Claude Carriere ("Belle du Jour," "Diary of a Chambermaid") concoct a simple story of unexpected depth, a wry comedy that unfolds
gradually, gently lampooning marriage and family life while painting a sensitive portrait of the confused, disenfranchised youth scene of the 1960s. Forman
regular Vincent Schiavelli makes his debut here as a bell-bottomed marijuana
"expert," who carefully instructs a banquet hall full of clueless parents in the fine art of getting high. A young Kathy Bates and a spirited Carly Simon appear
briefly singing at a theatrical audition, while Georgia Engel and Audra Lindley turn in subtle, nuanced performances several years before their television
debuts on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" and "Three's Company," respectively.
A beautifully observed, underrated gem.
who begin to enjoy life only after their teenage daughter (sad-eyed Linnea
Heacock) runs away. At once funny and touching, Forman and veteran Bunuel
collaborator Jean-Claude Carriere ("Belle du Jour," "Diary of a Chambermaid") concoct a simple story of unexpected depth, a wry comedy that unfolds
gradually, gently lampooning marriage and family life while painting a sensitive portrait of the confused, disenfranchised youth scene of the 1960s. Forman
regular Vincent Schiavelli makes his debut here as a bell-bottomed marijuana
"expert," who carefully instructs a banquet hall full of clueless parents in the fine art of getting high. A young Kathy Bates and a spirited Carly Simon appear
briefly singing at a theatrical audition, while Georgia Engel and Audra Lindley turn in subtle, nuanced performances several years before their television
debuts on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" and "Three's Company," respectively.
A beautifully observed, underrated gem.
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- jt1999
- Jul 17, 2003
Details
- Runtime1 hour 33 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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