Getting Straight (1970)

Directed by

Richard Rush

Genre

drama film, comedy film

Country

United States

Runtime

2h 05m

Rated

R

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 37 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A non-conformist graduate student navigates student politics and protests at a late 1960s university. His relationships and ideals are tested as he clashes with the administration and his peers.

satiricaltenseromanticnostalgicunsettlingenergeticcerebralslow-burn

What happens

Getting Straight is a 1970 American satirical and romantic comedy-drama motion picture directed by Richard Rush, released by Columbia Pictures. The story centers upon student politics, protest, and relationships during the height of the counterculture era at a US university amid the turbulent times around the late 1960s, seen through the eyes of non-conformist graduate student Harry Bailey (Elliott Gould). Also featured in the cast were Candice Bergen as Bailey's girlfriend, Jeff Corey as Bailey's professor, Robert F. Lyons as his draft-avoiding friend Nick, and Harrison Ford as a fellow teaching student and his girlfriend's neighbor. Getting Straight was released during an era of change and unrest in the United States in the late 1960s and early '70s, and was in a long line of films that dealt with these themes. Other films of this period with similar themes were Medium Cool (1969), R. P. M. (1970), and The Strawberry Statement (1970). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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