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Upon receiving his draft notice and leaving his family ranch in Oklahoma, Claude heads to New York and befriends a tribe of long-haired hippies on his way to boot camp.
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- CinemaSerfon TMDB · Oct 20247/10
I watched much of this convinced that Treat Williams was a very young Tommy Lee Jones, and despite the look of the film dating, it's still quite a potent and entertaining look at life amidst the draft. The rather naive "Claude" (John Savage) arrives from his home in rural Oklahoma into a New York brimming with vibrancy and eccentricity. He's on his way to join up to fight in Vietnam when he encounters "Berger" (Williams) and starts to fall into a life of gentle hedonism leading to his love of "Shiela" (Beverly D'Angelo). She and "Berger are from different sides of the tracks, but despite her silver spoon she has quite a rebellious nature and very much embraces her hippie existence protesting the war whilst stoked up on weed, emotion and idealism. They only have a few days, but in those days their relationships develop, thrive, vacillate and ultimately Milos Forman presents us with a quite subtly scathing commentary on a mid-1960s USA. I still think this works better on the stage - the confined space there forces the characters and scenarios together better, but this is still a strong big-screen adaptation that allows the music and dance numbers to retain much of their punch. The ch
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Cast
- John SavageClaude Hooper Bukowski
- Treat WilliamsGeorge Berger
- Beverly D'AngeloSheila Franklin
- Annie GoldenJeannie Ryan
- Dorsey WrightLafayette aka Hud
- Don DacusWoof
- Cheryl BarnesHud’s Fiancée
- Richard BrightFenton
- Nicholas RayThe General
- Charlotte RaeLady in Pink
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- Miloš FormanDirector
- Gerome RagniScreenplay
- James RadoScreenplay
- Miroslav OndříčekDirector of Photography
- Richard C. KratinaDirector of Photography
- Lynzee KlingmanEditor
- Alan HeimEditor
- Stanley WarnowEditor
- Lester PerskyProducer
- Michael ButlerProducer
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