Perhaps
the Best of All the Hippie Films... Easily the Most Controversial
director: Quentin Masters
starring: Meg Foster · Michael Burns · Bruce Dern · Mike Conrad · Joyce
Van Patten · Marianna Hill
Gary
and Shay meet on a beach in Big Sur and decide to hitchhike together,
agreeing 'to take every ride offered' [a bad and naive idea then
as it is now]. Through their thumb tripping, they meet an abusive mom
looking for her runaway daughter in the Coast's hippie communes, a horny
middle-age trucker who eventually locks Gary in the back so he can have
sex with Shay, a young married couple who take partying to a new level,
and a deadly psycho with a switchblade.
Despite this awesome debut project in '72, director
Quentin Masters returned to Australian home for a handful of less-than-impessive
films. He retired from the business after the disastrous racecar thriller
Midnight Spares
in 1983. THUMB TRIPPING is based on the counterculture
novel by Don Mitchell (who also wrote the screenplay) featuring vividly
engrossing vignettes which nail rampant hedonism, moral permissiveness,
unease/paranoia of the Nixon-era, erosion of flower child ideals... all
of which defined the early 70's.
An
American film in English language; fullscreen format (4:3), uncut version
(95 minutes), DVD encoded for ALL REGION NTSC WORLD FORMAT. Extras include
trailers.
Drugs/Sexual
Themes/Violence/Nudity
for Mature Audiences
Gary
and Shay meet on a beach in Big Sur and decide to hitchhike together,
agreeing 'to take every ride offered' [a bad and naive idea then
as it is now]. Through their thumb tripping, they meet an abusive mom
looking for her runaway daughter in the Coast's hippie communes, a horny
middle-age trucker who eventually locks Gary in the back so he can have
sex with Shay, a young married couple who take partying to a new level,
and a deadly psycho with a switchblade.
