I Love You Alice B Toklas [VHS]

I Love You Alice B Toklas [VHS]

I Love You Alice B Toklas [VHS]

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Actor: David Arkin, Gary Brown, Janet E. Clark, Joe Dominguez, Sidney Clute
Primary Contributor: Peter Sellers
Primary Contributor: Leigh Taylor-Young
Primary Contributor: Jo Van Fleet
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language), Analog; Spanish (Original Language)
Format: Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
Running Time: 92 minutes
Release Date: 1995-02-21
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Studio: Warner Home Video

VHS Movie Reviews of I Love You Alice B Toklas [VHS]

Movie Review: DVD I love you Alice B. Toklas
Summary: 5 Stars

If you ever need a really good laugh, and a trip back the sixties, this is a 'must have'.

Movie Review: Dated, But Still Funny
Summary: 4 Stars

This 1968 hit comedy about a staid Los Angeles attorney who turns Hippie may be a bit dated, but it's still a very funny movie.

Peter Sellers stars as the lawyer who meets flower child Leigh Taylor-Young, then decides that there are better things "out there" than his regimented, albeit successful, lifestyle.

Sellers is marvelous in this smart satire, but the most memorable performance is that of Joyce Van Patten, who plays the ardent, insecure fiancee he leaves at the altar...not once, but twice.

Written by Larry Tucker and Paul Mazursky and directed by Hy Averback, this film is an entertaining 93 minutes.

? Michael B. Druxman

Movie Review: Im goin' back
Summary: 5 Stars

If you loved the '60s, this is like opening a time capsule. Cynics abounded then, too, despite the love image of the time. This movie is one of the better comedies of the period.

Movie Review: I love you, Peter Sellers!!
Summary: 5 Stars

This is a very good movie. I had seen it thirty-something years ago, and always remembered certain parts, but I had forgotten other things and it was great to watch it again. I think it is not only very funny, but also a rather fair evaluation of the pros and cons of the alternative lifestyle that the hip community proposed way back in the mid-to-late 1960's. Peter Sellers, as always, fleshes out the character in his inimitable way. All in all, a highly recomendable movie for those who want to know/remember how life was before Internet and Jihad.

Movie Review: A TRIP back in time...
Summary: 5 Stars

Along with THE PARTY and THE PRESIDENT'S ANALYST, this is one of my favorite films from the psychadelic 60's... though its a bit sad: a comedy, but in retrospect, an homage to a lost revolution - - In fact, in many ways its a play on a fantasy I'm sure we've all had at one time or another... the idea of escaping from the monotony of a boring life and job and... being free - - only then, it was actually a trendy idea... still, Harold Fine (played by Peter Sellers) would have been the least likely guy to ever go ahead and do it... a 30-something year old attorney, unhappily engaged, square and stabley employed... but that was before a young hippie dippie chick came into his life, and he was able to sample her groovy brownies, expand his mind, and learn that maybe 9-5 wasn't as full of "tsures" as he thought it was.

Not to many extra features except a theatrical trailer, the movie is juicilly remastered... and the dialogue, images and music are really a trip back to the 60's. - - True, the film is best remembered for the hash brownie scene the film starts rolling way before then and keeps on getting better and better starting with the most "beautiful" and sub-union scale funeral you've ever been to... of course its hard to top and elderly Jewish couple high on hash and dancing the horah and playing minerature golf.... but that's just the begining of the madness.

Based on a great book with a great premise... an additional surprize about the movie was Peter Seller's ability to act so straight and square... then make the transformation from neurotic square to... to a hippie on the verge of a nervous breakdown. (Compare to Coburn's role in The President's Analyst.)

Don't rent this one... buy it... I get the munchies for it once every couple of years or so - - its worth the purchase... (By the way, another under-rated little morsel from this era is Goldie Hawn in Butterflies Are Free, though I think Leigh Taylor-Young's hippie dippie chick's got her beat on this one...!)

All in all, this is a hillariously cynical look at the "WE" generation, and along with THE PARTY one of my all time favorite PETER SELLERS films.

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Summary of I Love You Alice B Toklas [VHS]

Poor Harold Fine (Peter Sellers)... he's a suit-and-tie-wearing Jewish professional who's being pressed by his fianc?e (Joyce Van Patten, in a supremely whiny and irritating performance) to nail down a wedding date. Harold's bored and dissatisfied with his life, though; when he meets Nancy (Leigh Taylor-Young), a hippie-chick friend of his brother's, he decides to tune in, turn on, and drop out, in a big way. He flees the altar, leaving Joyce standing alone, and pursues the counterculture life. Soon, though, Harold discovers that the hippie life isn't all it's cracked up to be, with its hipper-than-thou hypocrisy adding up to little more than a different brand of conformity. Screenwriter Paul Mazursky skewers the shallowness of the '60s with dead-on humor and some hilarious set pieces; the scene where Harold and his straitlaced parents eat some of Nancy's "funny" brownies is especially memorable. Sellers's comic timing and physical awkwardness, paired with Mazursky's dialogue, makes this one of the better '60s-time-capsule flicks. --Jerry Renshaw

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