PSYCH-OUT-1968-A year after THE TRIP Jack Nicolson re-teamed with Bruce Dern and Susan Strasberg to star in this psychedelic peace and love drug movie for director Richard Rush (made between HELLS ANGELS ON WHEELS (also with Nicolson) and THE SAVAGE SEVEN).
Strasberg is Jenny a deaf runaway looking for her brother (Bruce Dern) in Haigt-Ashbury. She gets help from level headed hippie Stoney (Nicolson) and his two pals (Adam Roarke; also in the aforementioned two Rush movies and Max Julien, 5 years before THE MACK) who are also in a rock band.
While looking for her brother (nicknamed The Seeker) they ran afoul of a gang led by John “Bud” Cardos and Gary Kent (they were also part of the crew) and have a fight in a junkyard. Dean Stockwell is the philosophical stoner with a headband. Director Henry Jaglom is a gallery owner who freaks out and imagines his hand is rotting. Nicolson is pretty funny but Strasberg’s bad trip on STP is the highlight. TV producer Garry Marshall is a cop in the opening scene and Sky Saxon, The Seeds and The Strawberry Alarm Clock perform.
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