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Getting Straight (1970)
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"Movies like Getting Straight are ceasing to be tolerable" complained one conservative movie magazine of 1970. Today, the once-relevant but now merely entertaining Getting Straight is not only tolerable, but downright user-friendly. Elliot Gould plays a Vietnam vet who decides to attend college after his tour of duty. Though much too old and worldly to truly fit in with the naive flower-power generation, Gould becomes swept up in the various activist movements on campus. The leading character's crisis of conscience concerns his field of study: he wants to be a teacher for idealistic reasons, while his Establishment professors try to convince him that it's just another job, and hardly the best one at that. He finally chooses which side he's on while attempting to act as a mediator between students and faculty during a campus riot.
Candice Bergen
plays Gould's girlfriend, while Robert F. Lyons steals every scene he's in as a draft dodger who'll go to any lengths to avoid military service. Getting Straight represents the final screen appearance of
Cecil Kellaway
, here cast as a hidebound tenured professor. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Cast
Richard Anders
Dr. Greengrass
Candice Bergen
Jan
Billie Bird
Landlady
William Bramley
Wade Linden
Jeff Corey
Dr. Willhunt
Elliott Gould
Harry Bailey
Max Julien
Ellis
Cecil Kellaway
Dr. Kasper
Jon Lormer
Vandenburg
Robert F. Lyons
Nick
Gregory Sierra
Garcia
Leonard Stone
Lysander
Jenny Sullivan
Sheila
Brenda Sykes
Luan
Jeannie Berlin
Judy Kramer
John Rubinstein
Herbert
Production Crew
Sydney Z. Litwack
Art Director
Ken Kolb
Book Author
Laszlo Kovacs
Cinematographer
Ronald Stein
Composer (Music Score)
Gene Ashman
Costume Designer
Richard Rush
Director
Maury Winetrobe
Editor
Howard W. Koch
First Assistant Director
Howard W. Koch, Jr.
First Assistant Director
Ben Lane
Makeup
Leo Lotito
Makeup
Paul Lewis
Producer
Richard Rush
Producer
Robert Kaufman
Screenwriter
Edward Parker
Set Designer
Arthur Piantadosi
Sound/Sound Designer
Les Fresholtz
Sound/Sound Designer
Ira Anderson, Jr.
Special Effects
Chuck Bail
Stunts
Year: 1970
Runtime: 150
Country: USA
MPAA Rating: R
Category: Feature
Genre
Comedy
Comedy Drama
Drama
Romance
Color type
Eastmancolor
Produced by
Columbia Pictures
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