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A Decade Under the Influence (2003)
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Reviews Counted: 29 Fresh: 22 Rotten:7 Average Rating: 6.7/10
Rated: R [See Full Rating]
Runtime: 3 hrs
Theatrical Release: Apr 25, 2003 Limited
Synopsis: The 1970s was an extraordinary time of rebellion, of questioning every accepted idea: political activism, hedonism, protests, the sexual revolution, the women's movement, the civil rights movement, the music revolution, rage and liberation. Every standard by which we set our social and... [More]
Genre: Education/General Interest
Starring: Robert Altman, Peter Bogdanovich, Ellen Burstyn, Julie Christie, Francis Ford Coppola
Director: Ted Demme, Richard LaGravenese
Producer: Ted Demme, Richard LaGravenese, Gini Reticker, Jerry Kupfer
Composer: John Kimbrough
Producer: Ted Demme, Richard LaGravenese, Gini Reticker, Jerry Kupfer
Composer: John Kimbrough
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Demme and LaGravenese are just as happy to let the directors bask in their past glories and reminisce about those crazy days.
05/27/06
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08/19/03
It's illuminating and nostalgic and for anyone who lined up for American movies in that bygone golden age.
08/07/03
...less of a serious, insightful documentary and more of a nostalgic love letter.
06/19/03
The past is so bright here, co-directors Richard LaGravenese and the late Ted Demme must have worn shades.
06/06/03
It's as if we're watching the equivalent of a VH1 special edited for an in-flight movie.
06/05/03
Succeeds as both a primer for newcomers and as eye candy for established film fans.
05/30/03
Unlike many documentaries about movies, it's neither underfunded nor perfunctory, but thoughtful and bracing.
05/30/03
Fitfully interesting in its own right, but more useful as a device to point you toward checking out the original source material.
05/30/03
Leaves us to wonder whether ever again will so many creative free spirits move into the mainstream in such numbers and with such success.
05/29/03
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What's missing is anything resembling a point of view ... or the slightest sense of critical discrimination.
05/29/03
A breezy but incomplete valentine to the most fertile period in American film
05/25/03
It's gratifying and exhilarating enough -- the movie's a foolproof greatest-hits clips package. But Christie is its major coup.
05/23/03
When Coppola bellyaches you want to ask, Hey buddy, who forced the studios to give up on radical filmmakers by going insanely overbudget and past schedule with Apocalypse Now?
05/22/03
an entertaining introduction of the "auteur directors" that emerged from 1968 to 1978
05/19/03
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