Getting Straight

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reviewed by glenn erickson

The two years immediately following 1969’s Easy Rider were chaos in Hollywood, as executives scrambled to find something that would attract “the kids”. Getting Straight is a Columbia picture produced and directed dowload movies by Richard Rush, whose previous experience had been with the A.I.P. youthsploitation epics The Savage Seven and Psych-Out, and TV shows like The Mod Squad. Columbia must have thought that Getting Straight was the perfect project for the Woodstock generation, as it dares to “tell it like it is” about student rebellion, campus disaffection and the disillusion of the day’s youth. It’s a relentlessly “cute” comedy that treats all these issues with the finesse of a TV situati…Read the entire review

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