JUST ADDED: Director Richard Rush and star Elliott Gould will now appear IN PERSON, schedules permitting, to introduce our screening of Getting Straight.
In a time of increasing campus turmoil, a non-conformist former student activist returns to college, and an uncertain future, after a stint in Vietnam. Elliott Gould plays a man torn between two worlds, the aging academic establishment he’s working to join and the social uprising embodied by his socially radical girlfriend (Candice Bergen). Richard Rush’s shaggy-haired counterculture comedy captures the pulse of a changing generation.
“A brilliant, mercurial performance by Elliott Gould” – Howard Thompson, The New York Times
“Getting Straight is an outstanding film. It is a comprehensive, cynical, sympathetic, flip, touching and hilarious story of the middle generation – those millions who are a bit too old for protest, a bit too young for repression. Elliott Gould’s third smash performance in a year, herein as a disenchanted college student-teacher, makes him an undeniable screen star. Ditto for Candice Bergen, in a role that at last befits both her dramatic and physical talents.” – Arthur D. Murphy, Variety
Kim Morgan interviews Richard Rush and Elliott Gould for the New Beverly blog.
