I Love You, Alice B. Toklas

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I Love You, Alice B. Toklas
Late-1980s VHS video cover
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 Bros.-Seven Arts
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.

The film features music by Harpers Bizarre.

[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 (played by Leigh Taylor-Young) 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?).