Taking Off

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Taking Off

R,

1971,

1h 33m,

Comedy/

Drama

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500+ Ratings

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13 Reviews

84%

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500+ Ratings

Director Milos Foreman made his American debut with this comedy about 1960s-style parenting. Jeannie Tyne (Linnea Heacock) has fled her parents and her suburban home to wander around New York City. Sick with worry, Jeannie's mom, Lynn (Lynn Carlin), and dad, Larry (Buck Henry), meet other parents of runaways in a support group. When Jeannie finally returns home, however, it appears that her parents have been having quite a bit of fun with their new friends in her absence.

Penelope Gilliatt

The New Yorker

Jan 29, 2024

It has fallen to a Czech visitor to take the curse off films about the generation gap. [Forman] really likes America. He could probably show us raw nerve ends in a drum-majorette rally.

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Michael McNay

Guardian

May 15, 2020

Forman's, in short, is a talent in a thousand.

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Jan Dawson

Financial Times

May 15, 2020

Forman plays on this conflict of styles, catching at all the pedantic nuances of American jargon and pop culture to create a universally recognisable image of man's unfounded optimism.

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Dilys Powell

Sunday Times (UK)

May 14, 2020

Mr. Forman has made a comedy in the United States; and he has shown that his gift works on either side of the Atlantic.

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Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com

Jan 15, 2013

B+

Czech director Milos Forman applies subtle European sensibility to his American directing debut, a bittersweet satire of family mores and manners in times of change.

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Hermione W

Jun 7, 2018

Uproariously funny send up of post-60s hippies (and their parents) that really takes the piss out of both the counterculture and the counter-counterculture. The scene where the forlorn adults try pot for the first time in order to relate to their wayward kids is high(brow), slow-burning farce at its best. Even as the airy ideals of youth get the rug ruthlessly pulled out from underneath them-just by letting them be themselves, performing songs and acting goofy-it's really the parents who turn out to be the punchline (literally, in the case of a scene with Buck Henry getting drunk and violent), their repression exposed, their desire humiliated.

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Rey S

Apr 26, 2017

A relic from the early 1970's that holds up remarkably well.

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Director Milos Foreman made his American debut with this comedy about 1960s-style parenting. Jeannie Tyne (Linnea Heacock) has fled her parents and her suburban home to wander around New York City. Sick with worry, Jeannie's mom, Lynn (Lynn Carlin), and dad, Larry (Buck Henry), meet other parents of runaways in a support group. When Jeannie finally returns home, however, it appears that her parents have been having quite a bit of fun with their new friends in her absence.

Director: Milos Forman
Producer: Alfred W. Crown
Screenwriter: Jean-Claude Carrière, Milos Forman, John Guare, John Klein
Distributor: Universal Pictures
Production Co: Universal Pictures
Rating: R
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Mar 28, 1971, Wide
Runtime: 1h 33m

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