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'68 (1988)
Director: Steven Kovacs
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From Time Out Film Guide
Kovacs' episodic attempt to evoke the trippy, dippy and momentous days of '68 centres on San Francisco, where Hungarian exile Zoltan Szabo (Tecsi) and family are putting the final touches to their newly acquired ethnic restaurant. Throughout, radio bulletins, television broadcasts and posters conveniently announce that this is the year of the Tet offensive, the Chicago Convention, etc, but that's as deep as it goes. Zoltan puts his faith in his two sons, but law student Peter (Larson) is soon dropping out, turning on, wising up and getting laid, and his brother (Locke) comes out as gay to beat the draft. Shot like a pastiche of '60s soap opera, it finally peters out in a bathetic happy resolution of sorts.Author: WH
Cast & crew
Director: Steven Kovacs
Producer: Dale Djerassi, Isabel Maxwell, Steven Kovacs
Cast: Eric Larson, Robert Locke, Sandor Tecsi, Anna Dukasz, Mirlan Kwun, Terra Vandergaw, Neil Young full cast
Duration: 98 mins
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