I Love You, Alice B. Toklas

The caricatures of hippies at best will earn cheap laughs. It's conventional and derivative and middlebrow enough to fall back on broad stereotypes of what audiences in Omaha thought of the 'hippie movement. Silly artifact of its time even though it seems it was meant to lampoon it. It does that but since what it satirizes is now so outmoded it dates terribly and seems quaint. Sellers is good as are the rest of the main cast but it all rather silly and meaningless now.

I think this must be my favourite Peter Sellers movie, it's really hilarious and very 60s, I really liked it. The story is good, a regular square guy falls in love with a hippie and it changes his life. I liked the ending too, it's good. I Love You, Alice B. Toklas has a feel similar to that of Jacques Tati's "Mon oncle", in the way it looks at contemporary society and social interactions.

Peter Sellers plays Harold, a man in his late 30s who seems to have little say in his own life. His longtime girlfriend Joyce Van Patton doesn't seem to understand him, or misinterprets what he says. Her only concern is when they will get married and if they will be able to hire the "twin cantors" to perform at the ceremony.

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Harold's brother, Herbie David Arkin is a free-spirited hippy who, as his horrified jewish mother exclaims in one scene, wears "his indian suit to a funeral" a literal indian suit, replete with a feather in his hair and paint on his face. Herbie's friend Nancy Leigh Taylor-Young seems to interest Harold a great deal more, and he brings her home to sleep on the couch one night when she's out on the street.

In thanks, she bakes him some "special" brownies and leaves them on his kitchen counter. Later, Harold, his parents and his fiance will all partake of the brownies and get crazy. The pot brownies have a particular effect on Harold as he loses all interest in marrying his fiance and decides to "drop out" and live with Nancy.

The film explores the contrast between the hippy lifestyle and square lifestyle with barely a trace of realism. This is pure absurdism. The mexican family who come to see the lawyer Harold about their car accident a family of ten with braces around all their necks ; the fact that the hearse drivers were on strike so they loaded the casket in the back of Harold's loaner hippy jalopy, which then got lost on the way to the funeral, these are examples of the absurdism that goes on in the film.

For further examples of such films, check out the aforementioned Mon oncle or even "Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie" although I didn't enjoy the latter film nearly as much as this. More Top Movies Trailers. DC's Legends of Tomorrow: One of the best comedies of the s and one of the most subversive as well Peter Sellers, in his most American role, plays Harold Fine, an uptight mama's boy putting off any commitment to girlfriend Joyce Van Patten. He falls head over heels for free-spirited Leigh Taylor Young and all hell breaks loose.

Sellers is brilliant, Van Patten is pretty funny, and Taylor-Young is striking.

The movie is nearly stolen by Jo Van Fleet as Sellers mother, a shrike to be sure, and hysterical eating a "special" brownie. Hy Averback's direction is clever and the film is filled with a lot of funny gags Start your free trial. Find showtimes, watch trailers, browse photos, track your Watchlist and rate your favorite movies and TV shows on your phone or tablet! Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Full Cast and Crew. A thirty-something square falls in love with a hippie and decides to "drop out" himself.

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One person found this helpful. Most of the people reading this will probably not have existed in the 60's and early 70's. They will look at this movie and scoff at it and call it 'dated'. Well, to them I say you just don't know what a gem Peter Sellers is and what he contributed to the cinema.

I Love You Alice B. Toklas

He is a master of slapstick, beyond the silent-era masters. His face was well-worn with sadness most of the time, but could jump from facial stone to high-intense emotion in a matter of seconds. Few actors can do that now. In fact, many can't do it. You have to go beyond your preconceived notion that movies before you were born are 'dated' and go back into a time when Hollywood took chances with movie making. Now days, it's the same formula over and over until they become so ridiculous, I stopped going to the movies.

I would rather be entertained by quality than by a mass-produced actor machine that produces the same type of actor over and over again.

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Peter Sellers was one of a kind and yes, his movies are dated to those that did not live during the era. But to us who DID live in the era, he is God! For all movie historians and students of the theatre in universities, please, review Peter's movies and see the marvel of acting from this comedic, subtle genious. Some of the definitive movies of the late 60's and early 70's--wait. Isn't it interesting among all the ungroovy words that were made up in the 21st Century that's precisely , "definitive" is still around.

Because the people with the jobs of writing a little something on the backs of movie boxes don't have many other choices. Easy Rider was one, with dark vibes and the underworld counterculture.

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About sizes it up. Goodbar, is also a dark theme. Catch, morbid humor, and more theme than one knows what to do with. Toklas is not heavy, and the vibes are warm, bright.. Can I have one? No spoiling this one. You can't make me. If you never heard of it, never read the one or two reviews here and there, preclude that. I thought so but there are more people than just me now. A lot of actors I don't have on other movies. I like 60's flicks.

This movie was in theaters in Things are bad when all you think of to say is "lighthearted". Or it's a subtle ways of telling some of us we are morons.

Based on our entertainment needs. The movie is about changes people make, and is funny because of things that happen. It isn't sarcastic or black humor or based on taking pot shots at characters. Toklas is the closest a person can get to being in the sixties, which was close to the the end. The flick was set in it's own time, made well, and made some cry, even.

The ones of us with the goods, then, now.. Most likely filmed in L. Oh, a year's salary for 10 minutes" "Mmm, better than Reubens" "Oh Harold,take me!!