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Taking Off is a 1971 American comedy film, directed by Miloš Forman. It tells a story of an average couple in the suburbs of New York City, who, when their teenage daughter runs away from home, connect with other parents of vanished children and learn something of youth culture.
Mar 28, 1971 · Taking Off: Directed by Milos Forman. With Lynn Carlin, Buck Henry, Georgia Engel, Tony Harvey. While searching for their runaway teenage daughter, the parents rediscover the pleasures of life as they get acquainted with a self-help group for parents of vanished children.
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- Comedy, Drama, Music
- Milos Forman
- 1971-03-28
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Jeannie Tyne (Linnea Heacock) has fled her parents and her suburban home to wander around New York City. Sick with worry, Jeannie's mom, Lynn (Lynn Carlin), and dad, Larry (Buck Henry), meet other ...
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- Milos Forman
- R
- Lynn Carlin
89 min. Language: English. © 1971 Universal Pictures. “An engaging, episodic, wonderfully fair-minded satire about runaway children and anxious adults.” (Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader, 2008) “Taking Off” is set in the United States in the late 1960s. Young Jeannie runs away from home to New York City with the hopes of becoming a singer.
Taking Off (1971) In Czechoslovakian film-maker Milos Forman's first American film - an insightful, charming, witty and comedic satirizing of the adult middle-class, with extremely creative editing; it examined the supposed generation gap from the parents' perspective - and was inspired by the Beatles' song "She's Leaving Home":
Taking Off, the first English-language film by Czech director Milos Foreman examines a situation involving a runaway teenage girl named Jeannie Tyne (Linnea Heacock) and the desperate search for her by her distraught parents, Larry and Lynn. The parents, played ably by Buck Henry and Lynn Carlin, imagine their daughter has become a casualty of ...
