Product Details

• Actors: Bonnie Bedelia, Henry Winkler, Tom Morello, Sarah Carter, Sebastian Tillinger
• Directors: Bobby Roth
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Studio: Rivercoast
• DVD Release Date: April 29, 2008
• Run Time: 88 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0013K1AKK
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #85,120 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Berkeley" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

About the Actor

Henry Winkler ("Happy Days"), Tom Morellos ("Rage Against the Machine"), Nick Roth ("Prison Break," Numb3rs"), Laura Jordan ("Brothers and Sisters," "Nite of the White Pants")

Product Description

Just as sex, drugs, rock & roll, hippies and Vietnam enters our consciousness, so it does for Ben Sweet, the shy 18-year-old son of conservative businessman, Sy Sweet. Ben enters Berkeley in 1968 to study accounting and avoid the draft, but finds himself smack in the middle of a home grown revolution...and a whole new world. ben arrives on the charged Berkeley campus naive about the politics of the world, but his roomates and his firlfriends take him on an odyssey laced with sex, drugs, political activism and a whole lot of rock and roll that change Ben's life forever. Where better to make this journey than the most politically charged campus in America...the college whose name is synonymous with politcal activism, Berkeley.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Linking two generations , July 6, 2008

By	R. Roth (Los Angeles) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I was really happy to finally see a film that united the anti-war movements from Viet Nam and Iraq. The music is stupendous. Is the soundtrack available?

I think they should make a sequel and take these young, attractive characters into the seventies.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars THE MUSIC MAKES BERKELEY THE MOVIE, June 17, 2008

By	Ronald Cabral "Ron Cabral" (Concord, CA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The music of Country Joe and The Fish and Tom Morello make this Bobby Roth movie a winner and must have DVD for all fans of both Country Joe and The Fish and of Tom Morello. There are 10 classic Country Joe and The Fish tracks on the film as well as several jams featuring Tom Morello and Nick Roth as Ben Sweet. "Stars of Orion" by Morello is featured in the film and that song was among the finalist's for an academy award nomination earlier this year.
The film is about a young boy Ben Sweet who finds himself at UC Berkeley in 1968 and is quickly caught up in the anti-war, free speech, dope and fast sex of the times. His dad played by non other than Henry Winkler is appalled by his sons behavior, but loves him non the less. Bonnie Bedelia plays a professor who encourages BenCountry Joe and MeElectric Music for the Mind and BodyRage Against the Machine [Region 2] to become a writer.
Berkeley will hold up as a classic underground film about the 60's and the real music and sentiment of that time. Don't worry what the critics might say about this film. It is a must see and must have especially for the music and its historic statement about the turbulent 60's.