The '70s
by Peter Werner
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Actor: Amy Smart, Brad Rowe, Guy Torry, Kathryn Harrold, Vinessa ShawDirector: Peter Werner
Brand: LION'S GATE ENTERTAINMENT
Cinematographer: Neil Roach
Producer: Denise Di Novi
Producer: Jim Chory
Producer: Lori Motyer
Writer: Jeffrey Alan Fiskin
Writer: Kevin Willmott
Writer: Mitch Brian
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
Running Time: 170 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2000-07-25
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Lions Gate
Movie Reviews of The '70s
Movie Review: Must see this movie!
Summary: 5 Stars
I saw this movie a long time ago when it appeared as a miniseries for two seperate days on a regular TV channel. As a teenager, I was intrigued at this insight into the 70's, which is told through the experiences of four regular college kids. I never saw the movie again for the next 10-12 years, but it remained on my mind on some key memories that were hard to forget...until I ordered this movie through Amazon, and much to my delight, got to relive the entire movie once more for an exciting 2 and a half hours!
One student is a Negro who attends Kent State in Ohio, but also is a member of the National Guard, to avoid service in Vietnam, and also to help pay for his tuition. But when he's called into service against the antiwar mobs that first set fire to the ROTC building, he experiences the deaths of 4 college kids at the hands of fellow trigger-happy weekend warriors and he deserts the Guard, buys a movie theater that he attended as a kid, and as time goes by, turns it into a Black Nationalist headquarters for certain meetings. He dates and later marries an older woman with a child, who lost a husband in the war, and is also betrayed by a close friend, resulting in his near-death and his nice Mustang being totaled. Yowch!
Amy Smart plays another of the college girls, who loses a boyfriend at Kent State as well, and she leaves college, kind of puttering around through life with numerous jobs, and finds a new boyfriend who manages a recording studio, coming to blows with him later on and realizing her grief when she comes to apologize to him and finding out that he killed himself as an OD on drugs. It takes a while before she can recover from that, but in her true belief in trying to express herself, she joins a wacko cult, which brainwash her to the point where she doesn't know her own name, or her parents. Her own friends are forced to kidnap her from the cult house, and try to reprogram her back into her old life.
This girl's best friend is Eileen, who drops out of Kent State after that bloody day of May, 1970 and moves to New York City, hoping to put her skills to work there. Her new roommate is one of those kooky feminist-rights women who holds meetings in their apartments and also backlashes Eileen on the first day upon realizing that Eileen's mother is still a homemaker by choice. Eileen is soon dismayed at the decision of her parents to divorce and avoids her mother when she takes on a new boyfriend, taking the side of her father in the result. Unable to find a job opening at her true calling, she reluctantly takes on the job as secretary in an advertising firm, hoping to raise up in the ranks while giving her boss many good ideas on certain assignments, which he takes the full credit for. After years of this going on and losing the open position of the job she earned to another candidate who is scarcely qualified, she files a lawsuit for sexual indiscrimination against the company, and despite a heartbreaking testimony of a fellow secretary who had been in that position for over 20 years, she loses the lawsuit, but finally gets her dream position in the end with another company.
The last character is the guy who plays Amy Smart's brother, and is also secretly in love with Eileen the entire time. His parents are dismayed at his idea to quit law school, but are overjoyed when they find out his job offer is taking him to work for the government in Washington. He plays a huge part in giving out plans of the Democratic Headquarters Building to government officials during the election of 1972, which soon becomes a scandal in the Watergate crisis, and he is soon subpoenaed to testify hia involvement in Watergate, thereby losing his job as an aide in the White House after Nixon resigns. Unable to grasp this with his reputation, he soon finds himself in exile out as an oil pipeline worker in Alaska and protests the government spills that affect wildlife out there in Alaska. Several times, he tries to get with Eileen, without much success, but they get married, which is the last scene in this movie.
I enjoyed it very much and will be referring it to my friends and coworkers!
Summary of The '70s
The '70s. One decade will change four lives forever Kent State students Byron (Brad Rowe) Christie (Amy Smart) Eileen (Vinessa Shaw) and Dexter (Guy Torry) are caught in the middle of America's 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 of history as the scandal of Watergate is revealed the feminist movement takes charge an American President is disgraced and a new revolution known as disco-fever takes the dance world by storm.A mini-series event that captures the heart and soul of a progressive decade. The '70s remembers a time when issues and challenges rocked the nation and four friends learn about life love and of course disco.System Requirements:Runnig Time 170 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: PG-13 UPC: 031398738329