It's Columbia University Vice has Don Johnson takes on his first role and is a complete charmer in this look back at what life was like for young people and the late 60's, early 70's. He's a college student going through basically what every red-blooded teenager went through after leaving home, and it's historically funny yet often touching. His unseen mother writes him a very neurotic letter, indicating what to do if she should happen to die in a plane crash or just die on the plane. He tells off a cab driver who is rude to him for getting in a car facing downtown while he wants to go uptown to Columbia. It's ironic to see the original World Trade Centers as they were being built, especially the construction pit as it would look 32 years later after they went down.
Johnson finds romance with the virginal Dianne Hull but trouble ensues when he's seduced by her best griebd, Linda Gilen. 70's counterculture icons Holly Near and Michael Greer have supporting parts, with Victoria Racimo very sexy as a young woman who gets Johnson into a threesome. There's also a very cute early 70's style song "Sweet Gingerbread Man" that has me wishing I could go back to this era (briefly) as a young man. Films seem to paint New York City in this era as overrun with hippies or peace loving rebels with little to no ambition, and of course, that's an overstatement but it's fun to see that aspect of life when it's done so pleasantly. I've seen other films that were not so pleasant about it, but you can't expect its atmosphere and "Hair" to represent complete reality. Any film that has me smiling from start to finish with the exception of the sad parts will get a high mark in my rating system.
Johnson finds romance with the virginal Dianne Hull but trouble ensues when he's seduced by her best griebd, Linda Gilen. 70's counterculture icons Holly Near and Michael Greer have supporting parts, with Victoria Racimo very sexy as a young woman who gets Johnson into a threesome. There's also a very cute early 70's style song "Sweet Gingerbread Man" that has me wishing I could go back to this era (briefly) as a young man. Films seem to paint New York City in this era as overrun with hippies or peace loving rebels with little to no ambition, and of course, that's an overstatement but it's fun to see that aspect of life when it's done so pleasantly. I've seen other films that were not so pleasant about it, but you can't expect its atmosphere and "Hair" to represent complete reality. Any film that has me smiling from start to finish with the exception of the sad parts will get a high mark in my rating system.