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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
Director Milos Foreman made his American debut with this comedy about 1960s-style parenting. Jeannie Tyne (Linnea Heacock) has fled her parents and her suburban home to wander around New York City.
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- Milos Forman
- R
- Lynn Carlin
Premiere: 28th March, 1971, New York, USA. Runtime: 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.
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 ...
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- Miloš Forman
Brief Synopsis. Unable to deal with her parents, Jeannie Tyne runs away from home. Larry and Lyne Tyne search for her, and in the process meet other people whose children ran away. With their children gone, the parents are now free to rediscover/enjoy life.
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Directed by Miloš Forman. Starring Lynn Carlin, Buck Henry, Georgia Engel. Approx. 82 min. 35mm. In desperate search of their runaway daughter through East Village hippy enclaves, Buck Henry and Lyn Carlin resort to the ultimate - trying marijuana themselves!
