Word: loved
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Feintuch says he doesn't mind people who come and stay a few hours, but can only donate a dime due to financial difficulties of their own. "On the contrary," he said. "We love them. Part of the atmosphere of the place is imminent starvation in everybody...
Consider: Bob (Robert Culp) and Carol (Natalie Wood) are young and rich and good looking and hip (?). They live in Southern California and one weekend, decide to go to an Esalen-esque sensitivity institute. There they discover love and humanity and liberation...
...that simple. The conflict in this movie isn't that simple because Bob and Carol are hip (?) and Ted and Alice are square (!) Right?! Of course, right. From the very beginning. in that Hollywood fashion we all love and adore, writer-producer Tucker and writer-director Mazursky have stacked the cards against Bob and Carol. They do this by making Bob and Carol not so much liberated as pseudo-liberated. Bob and Carol think they are hip, but as the audience happily discovers, they are actually phonies and assholes. Robert Culp is a middle-aged Peter Fonda who wears beads...
...rest of the principals are great, too. Adorable Eleanor Lindsay is nothing less than adorable as Emerson's wife. And, in an extraordinary stroke of casting genius, Birnbaum has placed Josh Rubins, of all people, in the role of Richard, Sid's teenage nephew who learns the joys of love and drink during the play's course. The part has a lot of laughs, but Rubins never milks them. He is splendid, and so is Sheila Hickey as his intended...
...often hard to love the animals. They've got too many problems: they're dirty and smelly. They never get outside of their cages. It's easy to feel sorry for them, but feeling sorry for something often makes it impossible to love it as well...