kgutwein

I saw the Broadway play back in the early seventies when I was quite young but the impact has stayed with me my entire life. It was a very powerful and entertaining play. When the movie came out I had to see it and I was just as moved and entertained. I now have it on VHS and every Easter my husband and I watch it and I am still as entertained now as I was back then. I never get tired of watching it.

The end of the movie always makes me wonder too. You see everyone getting back on the bus and stopping for a moment to reflect on what they have just experienced. You even see Judas but Jesus never gets on the bus. It really makes you think.

I remember seeing this movie when I was very young and there were certain scenes that have stayed with me my entire life. For instance the scene when they are eating other people's garbage and the final scene. So my curiosity got the best of me and I rented this movie from Netflix to see it now as an adult with children (and one grandchild). I wanted to see if it would have the same impact and oddly enough it did.

The acting was relatively good in the movie, the writing a bit weak in certain areas but it had a message and that comes through loud and clear. It actually reminded me a bit of an "After School Special" but that was OK.

It didn't glorify either the parent's side or the "hippie" side. It made you see what was wrong from both ends of the spectrum. Sally Field's did not play a "Gidget" type of part in this movie but I thought she was good.

My real shocker was that David Carradine played her boyfriend. I told my husband this and now he wants to see it for just that reason!