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I Love You, Alice B. Toklas! by Hy Averback
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DVD Cover InformationActor: Leigh Taylor-Young, Peter Sellers Director: Hy Averback Brand: Warner Brothers DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0; Spanish (Original Language) Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen Picture Format: 1.66:1 Running Time: 92 minutes DVD Release Date: 2006-06-20 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Studio: Warner Home Video
Summary of I Love You, Alice B. Toklas!One day you're a career 9-to-5er with a pending marriage. The next you chuck it all for beads bell-bottoms and free love. That's how things are for Harold Fine a dedicated lawyer about to become a more dedicated dropout. Like the brownies served by Harold's new girlfriend I Love You Alice B. Toklas has a hidden magical ingredient: Peter Sellers whose flower-power performance here is in the same league as Dr. Strangelove Inspector Clouseau and other "best Sellers." Director Paul Mazursky and his co-writer Larry Tucker spread good vibes aplenty as Harold discovers tuning in and turning on can turn out daffily disastrous. Leigh Taylor-Young and Jo Van Fleet co-star in this Age-of-Aquarius time capsule that's timeless fun.Running Time: 94 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY UPC: 012569750173 Manufacturer No: 75017 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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