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| ACTORS: | Susan Strasberg, Dean Stockwell, Jack Nicholson |
| CATEGORY: | Video |
| DIRECTOR: | Richard Rush |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 06 March, 1968 |
| MANUFACTURER: | MGM/UA Video |
| FEATURES: | NTSC |
| MEDIA: | VHS Tape |
| UPC: | 027616862051 |
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Customer Reviews of Psych-Out (Amazon.com Exclusive)
a dumb movie This is a dumb,poorly acted movie.However,it does capture the flower power era and Susan Strasberg is lovely.Jack Nicholson seems out of place as a hippie,his short hair with a pony tail glued on doesnt make a convincing hippie.The soundtrack isnt bad,although the rip-off of "purple haze" with jack playing one chord is silly.
Funny how time changes perspectives ( & alters history)...
I saw this when it first came out. At a midnight showing in Oakland California. I thought it an abomination at the time. Hollywood got it, typically, ALL WRONG, wrong look, wrong dialog, wrong clothes, wrong attitudes. Contrary to a previous review, this movie was not filmed "on location" (unless you consider Culver City an annex of San Francisco). Of all the actors, only Bruce Dern had an authentic aura about him, but the guy was born a bohemian/hippie. I had never seen Jack Nicholson before but I left the theater thinking I'd never see him again, so lousy was his acting. (How wrong could I be!) He was the antithesis of people in & around the Haight. All that said, let me confess that I think Nicholson is one of the outstanding actors of film history (though not in this movie). I also find that time has mitigated my sense of indignation with the accuracy of the Psych-Out. While still not a realistic representation of Haight in the 1960s (except maybe at the end of its dynasty), it is a pretty accurate view of Hollywood's take on & imitation of its Northern neighbors. Psych-Out is what Sunset Strip & its environs became in the 1970s.
Psych Out will psych you up!
Perhaps no 1960's hippie "exploitation" flick has more realism than 1968's AIC feature: "Psych-Out". With it's filming on location during the height of 1967's Haight Ashbury scene, this fictional account of Susan Strasberg as Jenny, a 17 year old runaway who arrives in the Haight looking for her dropped out acid-head guru brother excels as an unintentional documentary of the time. Along Jenny's way she runs into the trio of Jack Nicholson as Stoney, and 2 sidekick charactors played by Adam Roarke and Max Julien. With very explicit scenes of drug use and drug-induced, trippy "hippie revelations", as well as a scene of a bad LSD trip in progress, the film does not take either side of the establishment/anti-establishment debate of the time. The film is both an exceptional period piece of life as it really was in the Haight's heyday, as well as an excellent study of the dissillusionment of the dropped out youth of the Vietnam era. With the one exception of Jack Nicholson being poorly cast as Stoney, the remaining performances by the others in the cast are all excellent. A must see film for any 1960's countercultural buff. It would make a great DVD release.