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      I Love You, Alice B. Toklas

      R Released Oct 18, 1968 1 hr. 33 min. Comedy List
      14% 7 Reviews Tomatometer 54% 500+ Ratings Audience Score Successful, strait-laced Jewish lawyer Harold Fine (Peter Sellers) takes a walk on the wild side after reluctantly agreeing to marry his long-time girlfriend, Joyce (Joyce Van Patten). Unexpectedly smitten by his hippie brother's flower-child girlfriend, Nancy (Leigh Taylor-Young), and her potent, marijuana-laced brownies, Harold ditches his establishment life and embraces communal living with Nancy, only to realize the freewheeling life might not be all that it seemed. Read More Read Less Watch on Fandango at Home Premiered Nov 07 Buy Now

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      Russ G A decent contemporary send-up of both all things California in the 60's and Jewish culture. I have to admit I watched it online and had to skip forward through a couple of the more awkward scenes. I didn't see anything funny about the search for the right cemetery, for instance. Hard to believe Sellers was just a dozen years from his premature demise when he made this; he was 43 and he was still pretty convincing as a man eight to ten years younger. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 09/02/22 Full Review dave s Paul Mazursky wrote some great screenplays over his long career. I Love You, Alice B. Toklas wasn't one of them. Peter Sellers, a comic genius, brought some great characters to life over his long career. That's not the case with I Love You, Alice B. Toklas. Sellers plays Harold Fine, a conservative L.A. lawyer who leaves his bride at the alter after eating some pot brownies and having sex with a hot hippie. The last thirty minutes of the movie are almost unbearable to watch as Harold grows out his hair and becomes a part of the ‘60s counter culture, thus making the first hour of the movie look like Citizen Kane in comparison. Sellers does his best to make things work, but I Love You, Alice B. Toklas is ultimately a comedy without humor or a satire with nothing to say. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review Frances H I usually love Peter Sellers, but this movie was a big disappointment. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 11/19/20 Full Review Audience Member The best comedy movie ever made! Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/26/23 Full Review Audience Member you are hoping for some sexy swinging 60's chicks. it's like an episode of the monkees afterdark (not like HEAD though) Peter Sellers gets all hippy while enjoying the company of beautiful woman exploring the love movement. tune in turn on drop out. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/10/23 Full Review delysid d I Love You Alice B. Toklas, is a funny old movie about a square who becomes a hippy after accidentally eating some weed brownies. Not the most exciting film but I still enjoyed it. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 04/23/17 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times This first half of the film is the best, as Sellers gradually bends the middle-class into non-class. Rated: 3/4 Sep 30, 2006 Full Review Vincent Canby New York Times By the end of it I was feeling a certain amount of resentment at having been had, along with Alice B. Toklas, whose name, apparently, is to become an automatic laugh, like smog and girdle. Rated: 2/5 Sep 30, 2006 Full Review Penelope Houston The Spectator This dimly predictable comedy tries to have its hashish cake and eat it several times over. Sep 26, 2020 Full Review Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews The caricatures of hippies at best will earn cheap laughs. Rated: C+ Jan 13, 2010 Full Review Mark Bourne DVDJournal.com It's conventional and derivative and middlebrow enough to fall back on broad stereotypes of what audiences in Omaha thought of the 'hippie movement.' Jun 18, 2006 Full Review David Cornelius DVDTalk.com It's an embarrassment in Sellers' career, one best forgotten and/or ignored. Rated: 2/5 Jun 15, 2006 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Synopsis Successful, strait-laced Jewish lawyer Harold Fine (Peter Sellers) takes a walk on the wild side after reluctantly agreeing to marry his long-time girlfriend, Joyce (Joyce Van Patten). Unexpectedly smitten by his hippie brother's flower-child girlfriend, Nancy (Leigh Taylor-Young), and her potent, marijuana-laced brownies, Harold ditches his establishment life and embraces communal living with Nancy, only to realize the freewheeling life might not be all that it seemed.
      Director
      Hy Averback
      Executive Producer
      Paul Mazursky, Larry Tucker
      Screenwriter
      Paul Mazursky, Larry Tucker
      Distributor
      Warner Bros. Pictures
      Production Co
      Warner Brothers/Seven Arts
      Rating
      R
      Genre
      Comedy
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Theaters)
      Oct 18, 1968, Original
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Oct 18, 2010
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