Getting Straight(Movie, 1970)

Name: Getting Straight
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love
Released: 1970
Duration: T02:4:00
Rating: 3.3

2h 4min | Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love

Rating: 3.3/5 (with 11 votes)

Getting Straight is a 1970 American comedy film motion picture directed by Richard Rush, released by Columbia Pictures. The story centered upon student politics at a university in the early 1970s, seen through the eyes of non-conformist graduate student Harry Bailey (Elliott Gould). Also featured in the cast were Candice Bergen as Bailey's girlfriend, Jeff Corey as Bailey's professor, Robert F. Lyons as his draft-avoiding friend Nick, and Harrison Ford as a fellow teaching student and his girlfriend's neighbor. Getting Straight was released during an era of change and unrest in the United States in the late 1960s and early '70s, and was in a long line of films that dealt with these themes. Other films of this period with similar themes were Medium Cool (1969), R. P. M. (1970), a... ()

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About Getting Straight

Graduate student Harry Bailey was once one of the most visible undergraduate activists on campus, but now that he's back studying for his master's, he's trying to fly right. Trouble is, the campus is exploding with various student movements, and Harry's girlfriend, Jan, is caught up in most of them. As Harry gets closer to finishing his degree, he finds his iconoclastic attitude increasingly aligned with the students rather than the faculty.

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Production country: United States of America (USA)

Made by: Columbia Pictures, The Organization

Original language: English (EN)

Spoken languages: English (EN)

Translated into 9 languages: German (DE), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Dutch (NL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU)

Status: Released

Release date DE: 05/13/1970

Cast: Elliott Gould, Candice Bergen, Jeff Corey, Harrison Ford, Cecil Kellaway, John Rubinstein, Billie Bird, Jeannie Berlin, William Bramley, Robert F. Lyons, Gregory Sierra, Harry Holcombe

Director: Richard Rush

Producer: Richard Rush

Screenwriter: Robert Kaufman

Director of Photography: László Kovács

Composer: Ronald Stein

Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):

"C.Q.F.D"

Keywords: activism, college, protest

Revenue: 13,300,000 USD

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