R. P. M. (1970)

Original title

R.P.M.

Directed by

Stanley Kramer

Genre

drama film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 32m

Rating

5.9 of 10 from 11 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

A college professor is forced to become the acting president of his university during a student protest. He must negotiate with the radical students while dealing with his younger girlfriend and the conservative faculty.

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What happens

R. P. M. is a 1970 American drama film directed by Stanley Kramer, starring Anthony Quinn and Ann-Margret. As the film's poster notes, the title is an initialism for "revolutions per minute", which at the time was a common term for the variable speed of a record player's turntable and generally a unit of rotational speed for rotating machines. It is a reference to students' smoke-filled drinking parties and how in the 1960s students evolved politically so quickly that they went through many political revolutions in little time. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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