Wild in the Streets

1968

Action / Comedy / Drama / Music

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 67% · 21 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 42% · 50 ratings
IMDb Rating 5.9/10 10 2328 2.3K

politics satire rebellious youth political satire

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Plot summary

Musician Max Frost lends his backing to a Senate candidate who wants to give 18-year-olds the right to vote, but he takes things a step further than expected. Inspired by their hero's words, Max's fans pressure their leaders into extending the vote to citizens as young as 15. Max and his followers capitalize on their might by bringing new issues to the fore, but, drunk on power, they soon take generational warfare to terrible extremes.

Director

Barry Shear Photo
Barry Shear

Top cast

Gary Busey Photo
Gary Busey as Concert Attendee
Barry Williams Photo
Barry Williams as Young Max
Millie Perkins Photo
Millie Perkins as Mary Fergus
Paul Frees Photo
Paul Frees as Narrator
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886.97 MB
1280*694
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 36 min
Seeds 1
1.61 GB
1920*1040
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 36 min
Seeds 8

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Mike_Yike 6 / 10

Many Things Age Poorly

I saw this movie in the theater a week or so after my junior year in high school. It was my first date where I was allowed to drive. The film received a lot of fanfare, aimed entirely at my generation. I went with high expectations and was of course disappointed. I think it was supposed to be some kind of Hollywood version of a social protest film, set in a slightly tongue-in-cheek spirit. It came off as just goofy. I thought it was goofy at the time, when I was 17 and almost anything designed especially for me I perceived as at least a little bit cool and hip. But not Wild In The Streets. Nope.Some folks might think it has acquired some kind of cheeky flavor to it that makes it a good film, you know, like Plan 9 From Outer Space is supposedly a good movie too. But nope, Wild In the Street is simply a below par film, and for that matter, so is Plan 9.
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Reviewed by Sperry23 7 / 10

Not great, but a slice of the 60's-as-we-wish-they-were

Max Frost and his band want to run the country and with the help of their friends and some pharmacology, they take over the political structure of the USA. It's a reasonably well made cautionary tale of the late 60's. It briefly became a cult favorite and was said to have prompted then-mayor of Chicago, Richard Daily, to put guards around the city's water supply just prior to, and during the 1968 Democratic National Convention to prevent anarchists from "dosing" the water with psychedelics.

The storyline is fairly slick for the time; how do a bunch of don't-trust-anyone-over-30 kids take over the country? There's a little romance, a little angst, a little rock music, and a lot of scenery-chewing and overacting by the "Major Stars" including Shelly Winters and Ed Begley. Hal Holbrook was able to keep it toned down.

This was also one of the first major films the late Richard Prior appeared in. The other being Sid Cesar's "The Busy Body", released the same year.

The psychedelic aspects of "Wild in the Streets" make it a great film to pair with Peter Fonda's "The Trip" for a 60's double feature flashback fest. Enjoy and never trust anyone under 30. heh.

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