In Search of America (1971) (TV)

User Rating:

6.2/10   

Director:

Paul Bogart

Writer:

Lewis John Carlino (writer)

Release Date:

23 March 1971 (USA)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

A college dropout convinces his family to re-examine its goals and gets them to leave it all for a cross-country odyssey in a 1928 Greyhound bus. |

Plot Keywords:

Bus | Dropout | Family Relationships | Hippie | Grandmother

Cast

Carl Betz	...	Ben Olson
Vera Miles	...	Jenny Olson
Jeff Bridges	...	Mike Olson
Ruth McDevitt	...	Grandma Rose
Renne Jarrett	...	Kathy
Howard Duff	...	Ray Chandler
Kim Hunter	...	Cora Chandler
Michael Anderson Jr.	...	J.J.
Sal Mineo	...	Nick
Tyne Daly	...	Anne
Glynn Turman	...	Bodhi
George Wallace	...	Clarence
Mary Gail Hobbs	...	Claire
Jeff Siggins	...	Announcer
Ken Sylk	...	Skipper

Runtime:

90 min (including commercials) | 75 min (DVD)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Company:

Four Star Productions

This movie was an antique by the time of its release in 1971.

This movie purports to show a middle class family's attempt to figure out what is "going down" in the America of the late 1960's. Their trip to a rock festival is as far as their refurbished old bus gets. Without exception, the characters are superficial stereotypes.

If you want to know which well-established Hollywood actors were desperate for a paycheck in those days,.. just look at the credits. Sal Mineo, I had forgotten just how badly his career had hit the skids! Thank God, his career rebounded before his untimely death.

The writers on this television turkey were clueless. Outside of doing weed, their insights into the "hippie movement" were laughable.