His life changes when he falls in love with nancy leigh tayloryoung, a freespirited. Aug 10, 2011 some episodes from motion movie i love you, alis b. His life changes when he falls in love with nancy, a freespirited, innocent, and beautiful young hippie. Also sign me up for fanmail to get updates on all things movies. It sounds more like the brainy, funny dissections of california dreamin that mazursky carried out in three previous films, i love you, alice b. This is the third installment in the turn me on, dead man series of posts on movies with psychedelic themes. Toklas is a 1968 romantic comedy film starring peter sellers, directed by hy averback with music by harpers bizarre. After harold and his family enjoy some of her groovy brownies, he decides to drop out with her and become a hippie too. Toklas has a feel similar to that of jacques tatis mon oncle, in the way it looks at contemporary society and social interactions. The movie is about changes people make, and is funny because of things that happen. The hot dog vendor from the carol burnett show full sketch. Toklas stars peter sellers, jo van fleet, leigh tayloryoung, joyce van patten the r movie has a runtime of about 1 hr. Toklas on digital and stream instantly or download offline. By the end of it i was feeling a certain amount of resentment at having been had, along with alice b.
Toklas is a comedy about a mans midlife crisis during the countercultural revolution of the 1960s. Elmer bernstein soundtrack music from i love you, alice. Toklas is the closest a person can get to being in the sixties, which was close to the the end. Toklas 1968 eating groovy brownies watch i love you alice b. Toklas cast and crew including actors, directors, producers and more. The peter sellers vehicle explores the fantasy that a single toke or a roll in the hay with a groovy hippie chick is all it would take to. The attendant is played by roy glenn, the father of dr. This is one of my alltime favorites love, love, love this movie.
Tolkas leigh taylor young, peter sellers peter sellers and joyce van patten in i love you, alice b. Toklas 18771967, most famous as secretary and companion to gertrude stein. The movie takes you back to the late sixties, even if youve never been there. The cast includes david arkin, jo van fleet, leigh tayloryoung in her film debut and a cameo by the scripts cowriter paul mazursky. But when the effects of the brownies wear off, harold suddenly feels like the rather foolish middleaged man that he is. Dispiritingly trendy comedy, coscripted by paul mazursky, in which sellers briefly sketches a brilliant performance as a middleaged lawyer tormented by asthma, by a. Film is not heavyhanded in its approach either to hippie life, or to what is considered normal modes of behavior. Go to the internet movie database laserdisc database buy posters from buy posters from moviegoods buy this soundtrack from search ebay for i love you, alice b. Find them all here, plus the hottest sex scenes from movies and television when you visit mr.
Far more importantly, her name became a synonym for a certain type of illicit brownies, and thus became part of the title of one of my favorite crazy sixties comedies, i love you, alice b. Once you select rent youll have 14 days to start watching the movie and 24 hours to finish it. Toklas im gonna change your name to mine red velvet trees and lions. Searching for a streaming service to buy, rent, download, or view the hy averbackdirected movie via subscription can be.
The film is set in the counterculture of the 1960s. Find movie and film cast and crew information for i love you, alice b. Toklas starring peter sellers and directed by hy averback. Toklas stars peter sellers, jo van fleet, leigh tayloryoung, joyce van patten the r movie has a runtime of about 1 hr 33 min, and received a score of out of. Some episodes from motion movie i love you, alis b. 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. A thirtysomething square falls in love with a hippie and decides to drop out himself. Peter sellers, whose flowerpower performance here is in the same league as dr strangelove, inspector clouseau and other best sellers paul mazursky and his cowriter larry tucker spread good vibes aplenty as harold discovers tuning. Peter sellers made a lot of good movies, and history has been kind enough to purge the memory of the bad ones from our collective minds. Toklas, whose name, apparently, is to become an automatic laugh, like smog and girdle.
Just pleading for a return to real quality, and thanking you in advance. He plays a single man of about 35, a lawyer with a great respect for appearances, who finally agrees out of politeness to marry the girl hes been dating for several years. Like the brownies served by harolds new girlfriend, i love you, alice bl toklas has a hidden magical ingredient. This material, so far, doesnt exactly sound like the stuff of a great film. Find out where to watch, buy, and rent i love you, alice b. But of three swinging 60s satires recently released on dvd, only 1968s i love you, alice b. Since the challenge for this specific task was to watch a movie that most people already think is terrible, i.
Toklas, bob and carol and ted and alice and alex in wonderland. Enter your location to see which movie theaters are playing i love you, alice b. It isnt sarcastic or black humor or based on taking pot shots at characters. Square lawyer harold peter sellers, stuck with a borrowed hippie van, meets nancy leigh tayloryoung, while picking up brother herbie david arkin for the funeral of a family friend, in i love you, alice b. Toklas movie synopsis, view the movie trailer, get cast and crew information, see movie photos, and more on. Dec 02, 2016 peter sellers plays a straight man who gradually morfs into a hippie figure and turned on by the infamous alice b toklas cookiesfun and frothy. But please, we rely on you, bob, so much so that we think our admiration merits your highest level of integrity on our behalf. Satires that aspire to tap into the cultural zeitgeist often age about as well as mayonnaise left out in the sun. Toklas 1968 successful, straitlaced jewish lawyer harold fine peter sellers takes a walk on the wild side after reluctantly agreeing to marry his longtime girlfriend. Toklas and so does gertrude stein i love you, alice b. The film opens with harold fine peter sellers, a respectable lawyer in.