The Year That Trembled is a 1970 coming-of-age story set in the shadow of Kent State that focuses on a group of young characters facing the Vietnam Draft Lottery.
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Jonathan Brandis | ... | Casey Pedersen | |
| Charlie Finn | ... | Jim 'Hairball' Morton | |
| Jay R. Ferguson | ... | Isaac Hoskins | |
| Meredith Monroe | ... | Judy Woods | |
| Matt Salinger | ... | Professor Jeff Griggs | |
| Erik Jensen | ... | Todd Franklin | |
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Sascha Stanton Craven | ... | Bill Clark (as Sascha Stanton-Craven) |
| Marin Hinkle | ... | Helen Kerrigan | |
| Fred Willard | ... | Frank Woods | |
| Sean Nelson | ... | Phil Robbins | |
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T.J. Hellmuth | ... | Carl Bumpers |
| Jay Michael Ferguson | ... | Col. Mike Newman | |
| Jonathan M. Woodward | ... | Charlie Kerrigan | |
| Henry Gibson | ... | Ralph Tyler | |
| Martin Mull | ... | Wayne Simonelli | |
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The Year That Trembled is a 1970 coming-of-age story set in the shadow of Kent State that focuses on a group of young characters facing the Vietnam Draft Lottery.
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watching television | letter writing | lottery | coming of age | vietnam |Taglines:
In a time of war and chaos, they found each other. See more »Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)
Rated R for language and some drug useParents Guide:
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22 March 2002 (USA) See more »Company Credits
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Evans Printing Co., Gamekeepers Taverns, Lodges and Inns, Novel City Pictures See more »
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Important depiction of a time arguably as turbulent as our current. However, links (or even intimations of them) from past to present are lacking in this film. A faded standalone snapshot, the mood unimpassioned, (ironic given the manic, "trembling" tenor of those times). No room is made or left over for extrapolation or lessons learned--a great opportunity missed. Instead we're dished up startlingly superficial and hackneyed treatment of the era, ineffective character development, and lackluster performances from most of the cast. Further, the film is riddled with anachronisms and suffers from romanticism and historical revisionism--so it comes off as shallow and clichéd. Perhaps this film was made by people too young to understand the flavor of those times. If not, perhaps the filmmakers are part of a well-meaning but removed elite, who took their very best shot at depicting the lives and dramas of their characters, but the closest they could come was creating an approximated, somewhat patronizing, overly polite, "as-if" characterization--which naturally lacks passion, flow, human depth and complexity, and realism. In sum, it's like watching back to back episodes of the mundane NBC drama "American Dreams" (albeit, with a more liberal lean, fortunately), without the energy level. Just about that insightful, realistic, and compelling. In sum, clearly an earnest effort, tho emotionally blunted overall.