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Jennie (Susan Strasberg) travels to San Francisco to locate her hippie brother Steve (Bruce Dern). She meets Stoney (Jack Nicholson) in a coffeehouse and he helps her look for Steve, who Stoney has se... read more read more...en in his various attempts to start a rock & roll band. Stoney and his pals transform the square girl into a swinging hippie chick, complete with a mod miniskirt. Along with their buddy Dave (Dean Stockwell), they search for Steve amidst the psychedelic splendor of the Haight-Ashbury hippie haunts. Dave is killed by a car when he wanders around in an STP-induced stupor. LSD, marijuana, and the good and the bad sides of hippie life are illustrated with non-judgmental accuracy. The soundtrack of the movie is a musical gem, complete with the international smash "Incense and Peppermints" by the Strawberry Alarm Clock. (The group reached the top of the charts with the song in October 1967.) Also on hand are the Seeds, although they don't get to perform their best-known song, "Pushin' to Hard." (Seeds lead singer Sky Saxon would gain as much notoriety as an acid casualty as he would from his musical ability.) Also adding music are the Storybook and Cryque Boenzee. The latter group contained Rusty Young and George Grantham, who would join with former Buffalo Springfield members Richie Furay and Jim Messina from the legendary, long-lived country-rock band Poco. This time-capsulized gem was produced by Dick Clark, the world's oldest teenager. ~ Dan Pavlides, Rovi

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Directed by: Richard Rush

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DVD Release Date: June 7, 1988

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  • ajv2688
    December 11, 2010
    ajv2688
    This is an excellent psychedelic drama movie, it's very exciting, and it has a great cast. It's a great movie, and I highly recommend it.
  • phaedrus99
    June 5, 2009
    phaedrus99
    how can you not love this? a spaced-out trip filmed on location by laszlo kovacs during the height of the haight-ashbury scene in full psychedelic color, starring a young ponytailed, bass-playing Jack Nicholson, Bruce Dern, Susan Strasberg and Dean Stockwell, all produced by Dic... read morek Clark himself, and the music! Once again, Jack Nicholson shows off his flair for perfectly capturing the essence of modern culture on film. Experience the true hippie scene as the wildness it truly was.
  • SonnyLighstrome
    December 19, 2007
    SonnyLighstrome
    A nice little bit of 60s nostalgia with a whose who of future stars from the Roger Corman school. This is Hippie culture at its most....Hippiesque, and it fits that this is on a double feature with THE TRIP, because the two movies go hand in hand.
  • garagetrogg
    June 2, 2007
    garagetrogg
    One beautiful adventure from the time when peace, love, & harmony weren't just novelty sayings spoken with zany ignorance but with sincerity and eagerness for a better world.
  • michaelsonye
    January 29, 2007
    michaelsonye
    Saw this in Drive-In with the Conqueror worm when I was about 13 and loved it.Now it's a wacky time capsule about an era that pretended to be alot more than it was.Amzing hippie cast of Jack Nicholson,Susan Strasberg,Max Julien,Gary Marshal and Dean Stockwell.Lot of fake beards a... read morend sideburns.Music by The Seeds and Strawberry AlarmCLock.Groovy.Directed by Richard Rush wh went on to direct The Stunt Man.

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Fernando F. Croce
September 30, 2011
Fernando F. Croce, CinePassion

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March 26, 2009
Variety

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Emanuel Levy
August 21, 2005
Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com

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Derek Adams
February 9, 2006
Derek Adams, Time Out

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Film4

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