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The Trip

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Time Out says

An earlier Corman picture, The Man with the X-Ray Eyes, had uncannily predicted the rise and fall of a Timothy Leary-type hero, whose desire to see beyond human limits was punished by humiliation as a sideshow freak and by self-inflicted blindness. The Trip, a definitive commercial for acid scripted by Jack Nicholson, is in contrast boundlessly optimistic. Its advertising director hero, Fonda, takes a trip with no retribution at all: no death, no disillusionment, but much bikinied girls on sea shores, swirling psychedelia, and mumbling of 'Wow!' by the obligatory Dennis Hopper in the land of a thousand visual clichés. Despite the hedonistic panache, its lack of a comeuppance means it now lacks credence (as it once lacked a censor's certificate). Rich pickings for the pathologist of '60s life-styles, but it took Coppola to work out that the best movies were about bad trips, not good ones.
Written by DMacp

Release Details

  • Duration:85 mins

Cast and crew

  • Director:Roger Corman
  • Screenwriter:Jack Nicholson
  • Cast:
    • Peter Fonda
    • Susan Strasberg
    • Bruce Dern
    • Dennis Hopper
    • Salli Sachse
    • Katherine Walsh
    • Barboura Morris
    • Dick Miller
    • Luana Anders
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