Getting Straight
by Richard Rush
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Actor: Candice Bergen, Elliott Gould, Jeff Corey, Max Julien, Robert F. LyonsDirector: Richard Rush
Brand: GOULD,ELLIOTT
Writer: Ken Kolb
Writer: Robert Kaufman
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 1.85:1
Running Time: 124 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2009-02-03
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Movie Reviews of Getting Straight
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Summary: 5 Stars
I saw this movie when it first came out in l970 and fell in love with it. I've been looking for it first on VHS and and then 8 years ago DVD. I never gave up. You can imagine several weeks ago how delighted I was in finding it in Amazon. Its a really good movie. And the price was too good to be true, and I received it in less than a week. thats what I call super service. Thanks again, and we will be doing more business in the future. Terry
Summary of Getting Straight
Genre: Drama
Rating: R
Release Date: 3-FEB-2009
Media Type: DVD
Though its plot varies widely from the "bad trip" films of its time (The Trip or Psych-Out), Getting Straight exists in this movie vein that illustrates the 1960s countercultural movement, both through its settings--wild parties and college campus hallways--and through its experimental camerawork, such as the way the lens focuses and de-focuses on characters as they converse. Moreover, the protagonist?s best friend, acid drop-out Nick (Robert Lyons), does make several good points throughout the film pointing out absurd realities, as characters typically do in this hippie film genre. That said, Getting Straight has a fairly complex story, and stars the excellent Elliot Gould as Harry Bailey, a Vietnam Vet whose past commitment to activism has been put to the test as he struggles to earn a living. Under the tutelage of conservative Professor Willhunt (Jeff Corey), Bailey is studying for his Master?s degree to become a teacher, to the chagrin of his radical friends, like Nick, and like his girlfriend, Jan (Candice Bergen), who waffles between wanting a conventional relationship and total freedom. Directed by Richard Rush, who worked for Roger Corman previous to making this film, Getting Straight has a B-movie feel in a good way, maybe because there are several stylishly clichéd characters in Bailey?s social circle. Yet Elliot Gould injects so much angst into Bailey?s character that this movie offers a well-rounded glimpse into the mind of someone whose idealism is at odds with learning to "exist," as Bailey says, in a Capitalist society. Dialogue gets heady and psychedelic at times, sometimes feeling as if Terry Southern (Candy and The Magic Christian) wrote the film. In all, Getting Straight is perfect for those aficionados of the 60s genre film, and will also please Gould fans who may have missed this entertaining gem. --Trinie Dalton
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