Product Details

• Actors: Stacy Keach, Harris Yulin, Dorothy Tristan, James Earl Jones, Grayson Hall
• Directors: Aram Avakian
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Language: English
• Rating: Unrated
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Allied Artists Entertainment
• VHS Release Date: April 4, 1998
• Run Time: 110 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6304963106
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #37,560 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A tattered signpost of late sixties indie cinema, April 10, 2001

By	Lee Hill (Canada) - See all my reviews

After working on Easy Rider, Terry Southern began collaborating with Aram Avakian on an intense adaptation of John Barth's debut novel. Shot in the summer and fall of 1968, when America was reeling from assasinations, the quagmire of Vietnam, rioting and ideological meltdown, the resulting film transforms Barth's existential character study into a chilling, visually stunning critique of political, sexual and cultural dysfunction. If the film's reach sometimes exceeds its grasp, there is still much that astonishes in this rarely screened film: the superb acting by Stacy Keach, James Earl Jones, Dorothy Tristan and Harris Yulin; the feature film debut of legendary cinematographer Gordon Willis; the haunting opening montage that relate's the lead's typical boomer upbringing against the horrorshow of post-WWII history; the music supervised by jazz producer George Avakian; and last, but not least, the uncompromising visionary screenplay by Terry Southern, Aram Avakian and Dennis McGuire. If you are a big fan of such end-of-sixties films as Performance and Two-Lane Blacktop, this is definitely your cup of tea.

0 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Bad , September 13, 2004

By	Beth "bethiejw2" (Mesa, AZ United States) - See all my reviews

I watched this film six years ago. It still lingers in my mind and I would like to forget it, but can't since it was just so awful. Now I like Terry Southern as a writer but I don't know what he was thinking with this. I watched this movie before I read the book years later. (This movie kept me away from it.) Luckily it had no impact since it was barely based on it. John Barth's book was interesting and postmodern. Mainly it was a thinking piece which this movie failed to capture. (John Barth was ashamed of the movie.) The movie decided to create itself as chaos. If you thought the 60's had bad effects and would like proof here it is. Just ask yourself do you want to watch a movie where a person has sex with a chicken? This doesn't mean the movie's a shocker. The movie hasn't stood the test of time