Commune
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Jonathan Berman
Jonathan Berman
Jonathan Berman
Tamas Bojtor
Alan Deutsch
Zed Frick
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During the radical fervor of the early 1970s, utopian communities dotted the country. They aimed to reshape the world with free love and common property, and they excited controversy and fear amongst local, often rural, residents across the country. Though the idea of communes is now often relegated to a naïve past, a successful and lasting, if controversial, legacy is discovered at the influential Black Bear Ranch, in Siskiyou County, California. Premised on the idea of "Free Land for Free People," and financed by the largesse of Hollywood rock stars, the founders of Black Bear bought a rural, abandoned gold mine and raised a rough-hewn homestead. Soon the fragile bonds of human connection became frayed, especially when the group discovered that each person had a totally different idea of what utopia might look like--and that "free love" wasn't free after all. Over the years, hundreds would join the community, and life would be complicated by growing conflicts about the role of women, child-rearing, proper communalist behavior, the FBI, and most traumatically, a child-snatching cult.
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Jonathan Berman
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Released in United States Fall November 3, 2006
Released in United States November 10, 2006
Released in United States November 3, 2006
Released in United States October 23, 2007
Released in United States on Video/DVD October 23, 2007
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Released in United States October 23, 2007
Released in United States on Video/DVD October 23, 2007
Released in United States Fall November 3, 2006
Released in United States November 3, 2006 (New York City)
Released in United States November 10, 2006 (Los Angeles)
