The '70s
by Peter Werner
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Actor: Amy Smart, Brad Rowe, Guy Torry, Kathryn Harrold, Vinessa ShawDirector: Peter Werner
Brand: Lions Gate
Cinematographer: Neil Roach
Producer: Denise Di Novi
Producer: James Chory
Producer: Lori Motyer
Writer: Jeffrey Alan Fiskin
Writer: Kevin Willmott
Writer: Mitch Brian
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Running Time: 170 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2000-07-25
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Lions Gate
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Movie Review: Disco Ducko
Summary: 4 Stars
There was no more turbulent era, except for the late 60s, than the free wheeling, drug drenched disco 70's. The decade started with the Kent State incident, and the Lt. Calley Mai Lai Massacre and ended with Jimmy Carter's reign of mismanaged government.
The 70's mini series is fun to watch if you lived through the era, as I did. The dialogue is straight out of SNL and the wardrobes reminded me of my mis-spent youth.
However, it does not, no fictionized series could, capture the the heart and heartbreak of those times. Although I am a veteran, I protested the war in its later years, because I believed that it was wrong and because it was "the social thing to do." Fueled by drugs rock music and a sense of being lost in a futile future, the early to mid 70's was a tough time to think responsiblity. However there was an overiding galvanizing effect for youth groups, pro-establishment or anti-establishment, and a polarizing effect against the status quo.
By the late 70's Disco music and Saturday Night Fever became the mantra, the search for love and peace a distant memory.
This mini series is worth watching because it tries to cover the 70's by focusing on a group of friends and wathching the transitions occur as the social events unfold around them. They became the conduits for the events.
The acting is okay, given the hokey plot lines and dialogue. The thrill to this series is reliving an era that started with the we generation and ended with the me generation. You had to have been there.
Summary of The '70s
One decade will change four lives forever kent state students byron christie eileen and dexter are caught in the middle of americas political unrest when several students are massacred on their campus for protesting the vietnam war. Their lives take radically different directions during this infamous chapter. Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. Release Date: 09/23/2003 Starring: Amy Smart Vinessa Shaw Rating: Nr Director: Peter WernerIn 170 minutes, this NBC-produced miniseries hoped to capture a decade--and in many ways, it did. The '70s traces the lives of four friends from their senior year at Kent State (marked by the killing of four student protestors by the National Guard) through the era of Watergate and Tang. At its worst, it's a so-so soap opera held together by fascinating bits of historical trivia, giving equal time to the issues of the era (the Equal Rights Amendment, the oil crisis) and inescapable bits of pop culture (Mary Tyler Moore and the hustle). The characters are pretty obviously engineered to plumb every angle of the decade's cultural topography: the young black National Guardmember who deserts to Los Angeles in time to join the Black Panthers and open a cinema featuring hits like Shaft and Cleopatra Jones, the sorority girl turned disco queen turned California cultist, the young intellectual woman who finds feminism and abandons marriage in favor of a career, and the conservative law student turned Watergate burglar turned pipeline worker turned environmentalist. The acting's not bad and the story hangs together, but the show is really at its best when the soundtrack takes over, allowing montages of memorable photos and archival film clips to reveal (and revel in) the real history behind the melodrama. --Grant Balfour
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