I Love You, Alice B. Toklas
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| I Love You, Alice B. Toklas | |
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| Directed by | Hy Averback |
| Produced by | Pato Guzman Paul Mazursky Larry Tucker |
| Written by | Paul Mazursky Larry Tucker |
| Starring | Peter Sellers Jo Van Fleet Leigh Taylor-Young Joyce Van Patten David Arkin |
| Music by | Elmer Bernstein |
| Cinematography | Philip H. Lathrop |
| Editing by | Robert Jones |
| Distributed by | Warner Brothers |
| Release date(s) | 1968 |
| Running time | 94 min. |
| Country | U.S.A. |
| Language | English |
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Released at the height of the hippie era, the film I Love You, Alice B. Toklas (1968) tells the story of one Harold Fine (Peter Sellers), a self-described "square" lawyer, and his theatrical mother played by Jo Van Fleet.
The movie was directed by Hy Averback.
[edit] Plot
Harold Fine is set to marry his longtime girlfriend Joyce, but Harold is having deep second thoughts. He encounters his brother, a hippie living in Venice Beach, and falls for an attractive flower power hippie girl who has a knack for making pot brownies (hence the title of the film). Harold ends up running out of his wedding to live with the hippie girl and attempts to find himself as well with the aid of a guru (or does he?).
[edit] Philosophical Insights
The film reaches into the idea that society is an inescapable concept that is much larger than a simple set of rules and consequences.
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