The '60s / producer, Jim Chory ; director, Mark Piznarski ; teleplay, Bill Couturié, Robert Greenfield, Jeffrey Fiskin ; story, Bill Couturié, Robert Greenfield.
Publisher:
NBC Home Video,
Copyright Date:
1999
Description:
1 videodisc (171 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Josh Hamilton, Julia Stiles, Jerry O'Connell, Jeremy Sisto, Jordana Brewster, Leonard Roberts, Bill Smitrovich, Annie Corley, David Alan Grier, Donovan Leitch, Cliff Gorman, Charles S. Dutton. Videodisc release of the Feb. 7-8, 1999 television miniseries by Lynda Obst Productions in association with NBC Studios. Special features: interactive menus; scene access; cast information; interview with Lynda Obst; '60s speak; Spanish, English and French subtitles.
Summary:
An attempt to encapsulate the whole of the 1960's through the experiences of two families, one white and one black, who are torn apart by the social forces of the time: the civil rights movement, the student revolution, and the Vietnam War. The Herlihy's are a white, middle class, Catholic family in Chicago. The Taylor's are the family of a black preacher in Mississippi. The eldest Herlihy son (O'Connell) enlists in the Marines on graduation from high school, is sent to Vietnam, and returns as a disillusioned head case. His younger brother (Hamilton), becomes a freedom rider and later, in college, an anti-war activist. Their sister (Stiles), winds up pregnant and unmarried on the streets of Haight Asbury. The black family, active in civil rights protests in the South, moves to Los Angeles where the father (Dutton) is killed during the Watts riots. His son Emmet (Roberts), eventually becomes a bodyguard for Black Panther leader Fred Hampton (Grier). In the end, everyone who survives finds a modicum of happiness. The Herlihy children are reunited at Woodstock and reconcile with their parents who accept their children for what they have become. Emmet Taylor returns to Watts to organize a breakfast program for needy children.
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