Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786300269064 Format: Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC ISBN: 630026906X Label: Warner Home Video Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Warner Home Video Release Date: February 21, 1995 Running Time: 92 minutes Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: October 18, 1968 Sales Rank: 15987
Amazon.com: Poor Harold Fine (Peter Sellers)... he's a suit-and-tie-wearing Jewish professional who's being pressed by his fiancée (Joyce Van Patten, in a supremely whiny and irritating performance) to nail down a wedding date. Harold's bored and dissatisfied with his life, though; when he meets Nancy (Leigh Taylor-Young), a hippie-chick friend of his brother's, he decides to tune in, turn on, and drop out, in a big way. He flees the altar, leaving Joyce standing alone, and pursues the counterculture life. Soon, though, Harold discovers that the hippie life isn't all it's cracked up to be, with its hipper-than-thou hypocrisy adding up to little more than a different brand of conformity. Screenwriter Paul Mazursky skewers the shallowness of the '60s with dead-on humor and some hilarious set pieces; the scene where Harold and his straitlaced parents eat some of Nancy's "funny" brownies is especially memorable. Sellers's comic timing and physical awkwardness, paired with Mazursky's dialogue, makes this one of the better '60s-time-capsule flicks. --Jerry Renshaw
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Rating: - Dated, But Still Funny
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Rating: - Im goin' back
If you loved the '60s, this is like opening a time capsule. Cynics abounded then, too, despite the love image of the time. This movie is one of the better comedies of the period.
Rating: - I love you, Peter Sellers!!
This is a very good movie. I had seen it thirty-something years ago, and always remembered certain parts, but I had forgotten other things and it was great to watch it again. I think it is not only very ... Read More
Rating: - A TRIP back in time...
Along with THE PARTY and THE PRESIDENT'S ANALYST, this is one of my favorite films from the psychadelic 60's... though its a bit sad: a comedy, but in retrospect, an homage to a lost revolution - - In fact, ... Read More
Rating: - An area is not a date!
Sellers is perfect in the restricted anxious role as the repressed asmatic Jewish raised status quo lawyer, Harold Fine. Joyce (Joyce Van Patten) remarks when his car is pinned in due to an unforseen parking ... Read More
- Dated, But Still Funny
- Im goin' back