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I Love You, Alice B. Toklas (1968)

I Love You, Alice B. Toklas poster
Original title
I Love You, Alice B. Toklas!
Directed by
Hy Averback
Genre
romantic comedy
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 34m
Rated
R
Rating
5.0 of 10 from 36 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A straight-laced lawyer in his 30s starts rethinking his life after he gets involved with a free-spirited woman from the 1960s counterculture. He stumbles into a very different world of hippies and marijuana brownies.

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What happens

I Love You, Alice B. Toklas is a 1968 American romantic comedy film directed by Hy Averback and starring Peter Sellers. The film is set in the counterculture of the 1960s. The cast includes Joyce Van Patten, David Arkin, Jo Van Fleet, Leigh Taylor-Young (in her film debut) and a cameo by the script's co-writer Paul Mazursky. The title refers to writer Alice B. Toklas, whose 1954 autobiographical cookbook had a recipe for "Haschich Fudge". The film's eponymous theme song was performed by sunshine pop group Harpers Bizarre. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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