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starring: Elliott Gould, Candice Bergen, Robert F. Lyons, Jeff Corey, Max Juliendirected by: Richard Rush
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786302824452
Format: Color, NTSC
ISBN: 6302824451
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Release Date: June 02, 1998
Running Time: 124 minutes
Sales Rank: 23816
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: May 13, 1970
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Average Rating: 
Rating: - Holding It All Together In The '70's
Synopsis: Harry Bailey (Elliot Gould) is a Viet Nam veteran, student-teacher and graduate candidate working on his Masters Degree in English. With a career path clearly set before him and Jan (Candace Bergen) a beautiful, adoring girlfriend by his side a sedate, middle class future appears secure.
However when Viet Nam War protests break out on campus dividing the student body and the pressures and absurd expectations put on his thesis dissertation by pretentious professors becomes evident ... Read More
Rating: - Get Straight about the Sixties!
It had been about twenty years since I had seen this film, and I found it to be a great way to recall the issues of the late sixties/early seventies and feel a nostalgia for the "Revolution." The best elements of the film in my view are as follows: Elliot Gould's tour de force performance is unlike anything you can see in film; the campus demonstration scenes are very well done and realistic (the cops are pretty brutal); the teaching episodes are funny and meaningful; if you've ever had to drive a junky ... Read More
Rating: - I was there
During the riot scene, the white vans that the "cops" roll up in were actually old milk trucks from Echo Spring Dairy in Eugene. They painted over the dairy signage and put police dept graphics on the sides. The "cops" were some students who didn't get to be part of the "riot".
During the riot, you see office file cabinets and desks being thrown over a balconey. That wasn't scripted. The students got carried away. The office furniture was rented from Chapman Brothers Stationery in Eugene and the ... Read More
Rating: - When you say it's dated...
...you fail to realize that, to the extent that you are conveying anything meaningful at all, you are paying it a compliment.
The film captures, as well as any film I've ever seen, the disintegration and the insanity of its specific moment. Compare Richard Rush's visceral staging of the campus riots here to any fictional or documentary footage you've run across; even "Medium Cool", the legendary fiction-doc hybrid, comes up feeling distant and tentative. If "Getting Straight" were not so steeped ... Read More
Rating:  - Getting it straight
One of my (high school) students interviewed me about the Vietnam Era. His last follow-up questions were "What music did you like?" and "How did you feel about the protesters of the late '60s - early '80s?" I told him that the movie or the sound-track of "Woodstock" would answer his first question. I thought and added that "Strawberry Statement" and Elliot Gould in "Getting Straight" would give him insight into what I thought about the second. Upon reading various reviews and improving my memory on the matter, I ... Read More
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