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Film Details. Notes. Brief Synopsis. The story of London's 1960's counterculture scene. Cast & Crew. Read More. Beeban Kidron. Director. Sienna Miller. Cillian Murphy. Max Minghella. Emma Booth. Derek Jacobi. Film Details. Genre. Adaptation. Comedy. Drama. Period. Release Date. 2007. Production Company. Universal Pictures; Working Title Films.
Premise. Hippie Hippie Shake follows the love story of Oz editor Richard Neville and Louise Ferrier, as Neville and his cohorts launch the London edition of the radical magazine, and are put on trial for publishing an obscene issue. The film serves as a metaphorical journey through the 1960s in London.
The landmark obscenity trial surrounding a satirical Australian magazine becomes a metaphor for a wild ride through swinging 1960s-era London in director Beeban Kidron's adaptation of Richard Neville's memoir Hippie Hippie Shake: The Dreams, the Trips, the Trials, the Love-ins, the Screw Ups: The Sixties.
