Allied Artists
Directed by John Sole
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
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A middle aged couple and their teenage daughter in a suburban Canadian city have their lives turned upside down when a music shop run by hippies opens next door. When the husband finds out his daughter is sleeping with them, he confronts them in the shop and kicks the daughter out of the house. He turns to alcohol and has an affair of his own, driving his wife into the arms of one of the hippies. Set against the backdrop of the psychedelic pop culture of the time, this could easily be written off as just another silly sex romp, but it does a fairly good job of exposing the generation gap created by the social revolution of the 60s and its impact on traditional marriage. The downbeat ending suggests there isn't much room for compromise, though.
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