1971
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13 de mai. de 1970 · Getting Straight: Directed by Richard Rush. With Elliott Gould, Candice Bergen, Robert F. Lyons, Jeff Corey. A Vietnam vet and former social radical is conflicted by his desire to become a teacher and his sympathy with anti-establishment student protests.
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- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Richard Rush
- 1970-05-13
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Harry Bailey, a former student activist, Vietnam War veteran, and graduate student, returns to college to complete a master's degreeso he can become a teacher. He does his best to avoid the increasing student unrest that has surfaced at his university and in the country as a whole. However, he finds this difficult as his girlfriend, Jan, is a leade...
Original novel
In February 1967, Mike Frankovich, head of Columbia Pictures, announced he had bought the rights to the novel Getting Straightby Ken Kolb. Richard Rush described the original novel as "a nice novel about a graduate student taking his orals to get his teaching credentials. The administration of the college is like a medieval torture chamber, and the oral exam is like the Salem witch trials. He barely escapes with his sanity." The novel was published in early 1968. The Chicago Tribunecalled the...
Richard Rush
Director Richard Rush had impressed with his AIP films Hells Angels on Wheels (1967) and Psych-Out (1968) and was signed to an independent deal with Columbia. They offered the book to him, and he said he would do it if they let him make a contemporary film about kids at college rebelling against the draft and the war. He wrote a treatment and they eventually agreed.Rush's signing was announced in June 1968. "To me the whole 'revolution' is not a political revolution but a personal one", he sa...
Casting
Elliott Gould had just made M*A*S*H and was going to make Move when Columbia came to him with Getting Straight. "Columbia said if I didn't take the part they'd drop it", he said. "I was the only actor they'd go with. I was never so flattered in my life." Gould says when he met Rush the director asked him, "'Can you get angry?' Because I had never been in the Army, nor had I ever gone to college, nor am I an angry person. I said, 'I believe I can show you some passion and emotion for this char...
Box office
The film grossed $13.3 million at the domestic box office, earning $5.1 million in US theatrical rentals. It was the 21st highest-grossing film of 1970. The film was one of a number of movies made about campus unrest at this time, others including The Strawberry Statement, The Magic Garden of Stanley Sweetheart, The Pursuit of Happiness, The Revolutionary, Up in the Cellar, Zabriskie Point and RPM. Getting Straightwas the only one that was commercially successful. "We were one of Columbia's b...
Critical reaction
Howard Thompson of The New York Times wrote, "A brilliant, mercurial performance by Elliott Gould steadies and vivifies but cannot save 'Getting Straight' ... A serious-minded, freewheeling comedy, pivoting on student unrest and rebellion on the contemporary campus scene, succumbs to theatrics and, structurally, the very conventions it deplores." Also writing in The New York Times, Dwight Macdonaldcalled it "a bad movie" that "reminds me of a grunt-and-groan wrestling match that tries by over...
Getting Straight at IMDbGetting Straight at Rotten TomatoesGetting Straight at the TCM Movie Database29 de fev. de 2020 · Graduate student Harry Bailey was once one of the most visible undergraduate activists on campus, but now that he’s back studying for his master’s, he’s trying to fly right. Trouble is, the campus is exploding with various student movements, and Harry’s girlfriend, Jan, is caught up in most of them.
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A Vietnam vet and former social radical is conflicted by his desire to become a teacher and his sympathy with anti-establishment student protests. Harry Bailey is two weeks away from getting his Masters degree in Education at a liberally-minded university, after his undergraduate degree in English and English literature, his goal to get a ...
Graduate student Harry Bailey (Elliott Gould) was once one of the most visible undergraduate activists on campus, but now that he's back studying for his master's,...
- Comedy, Drama
Harry Bailey has returned from Vietnam and returns to college to earn his masters degree so he can teach English. He is considered a hero among the radical student body, but still sees the absurdity on both sides of the fence.
