Originally produced as documentary films in 1968. Parents: Run time approx. 21 min. Thumbs Down: Run time: approx. 102 min. Special features include: Interview with the filmmakers ; original Thumbs Down trailer ; DVD-ROM feature "Documents from The early years."
Contents:
Parents -- Thumbs Down.
Summary:
Parents: "A parish youth group in a lower-middle-class Chicago neighborhood discusses parental authority, growing up, and the struggle to communicate with parents. This cinéma vérité documentary of an actual meeting allows the young people to speak for themselves, giving us a viewpoint different from that of their more prosperous or more radical counterparts."--Container. Thumbs Down: "In this cinéma vérité documentary, a teenage youth group called Thumbs Down decides 'to bring Christ to their neighborhood' by holding an anti-war Mass at their conservative Chicago parish. Neither militants nor hippies, they simply believe that Christianity means social action and a concern with issues. They present this belief to the community and the confrontation reveals the deepening crisis of communication between the young Christians and their parents, priests, and neighbors."--Container.
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