Written by the 30 year old Jack Nicholson !! I saw this years ago... never knew he wrote it. One of a handful of films from the 60s and 70s that honestly dealt with drug use (Skidoo. The President's Analyst. The Acid Eaters would come a year later. ) Some AWESOME street and neighborhood scenes of 1960's Los Angeles. Too much fun. Peter Fonda. Dennis Hopper. Susan Strasberg. Bruce Dern. Everything is groovy, man, filmed during the upswing of the flower power years. Is there a plot? Yeah, sort of. Doesn't really matter. Quite the serious disclaimer at the beginning. I guess this film was pretty shocking for the movie patrons at the time, when everyone would have gone to the theater to see it. Pot smoking. Acid. Planning for it, talking about it, and doing it. Tight pants and short skirts. Midgets, Middle Ages. Too weird. The focus and the sound are a little shaky, but who cares. Finally being shown on Turner Classic Movies. Definitely worth watching, for the psychedelic hippies, clothes, and wallpaper. Some interesting extras in the cast list... Brandon DeWilde, Peter Bogdano, Gram Parsons. Fonda, Hopper, Nicholson, and Luana Anders would work together in Easy Rider, of course. Didn't end well for DeWilde or Parsons. Anders died pretty young too. Catch both The Trip and Easy Rider when they come on. Excellent stories.
