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Movie - '68

Year: 1988
Rated: R
Parental Rating: Objectionable for children
Country Of Origin: U.S.
Running Time: 98
Format: Color
Genre(s): Drama
Production: Sixty-Eight
Released By: New World

This low-budget, independently produced film presents its personal coming-of-age stories against the backdrop of an America undergoing a rite of passage of its own. In San Francisco in 1968, Zoltan Szabo (Sandor Tecsi) and his wife, Zsuzsa (Anna Dukasz), run a small restaurant with the help of their sons, Peter (Eric Larson), a student at Berkeley, and Sandy (Robert Locke). Peter is unjustly suspended from college, takes a job in a motorcycle shop, and volunteers to do campaign work for Robert Kennedy, while trying to make sense of the political upheaval around him. Sandy decides that he is gay, volunteers for the Army, and then, realizing that he wants no part of Vietnam, uses his homosexuality to get out again. All of this is too much for their father, whose life is already complicated by the affair he is having with his waitress. '68 does an adequate job of evoking its period, but writer-director Steven Kovacs, who based the film on his own experience as an immigrant's son during the 60s, has tried to cram so many events into the picture that his characters never develop beyond caricatures. The performances are adequate though somewhat uneven, with no real standouts. Those drawn to 60s nostalgia will find plenty to interest them here, if little to aid their understanding the period.

Cast

Eric Larson: Peter Szabo

Robert Locke: Sandy Szabo

Sandor Tecsi: Zoltan Szabo

Anna Dukasz: Zsuzsa Szabo

Miran Kwun: Alana Chan

Terra Vandergaw: Vera Kardos

Shony Alex Braun: Tibor Kardos

Donna Pecora: Piroska Kardos

Jan Nemec: Dezso Horvath

Rusdi Lane: Bela Csontos

Nike Doukas: Beatrice