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Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Brian De Palma
Jonathan Warden
Robert De Niro
Gerritt Graham
Richard Hamilton
Megan Mccormick
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Three young New Yorkers--Paul Shaw, Lloyd Clay, and Jon Rubin--try to cope with contemporary society. Paul, who is obsessed with sex, gets called for a preinduction Army physical and agrees with Jon and Lloyd that the best way to beat the draft is to pose as either a homosexual or a right-wing militant or both. Lloyd, who is obsessed with various theories discrediting the Warren Commission Report on the Kennedy assassination, spends his time tracing bullet trajectories on the naked bodies of accommodating girls. Jon, a peeping tom, goes around persuading young women to disrobe under conditions ideally suited to his fixation. Awaiting his draft call, Paul goes on a series of computer dates and then makes a stag movie. Lloyd takes a brief respite from his Warren Report investigation only to get shot down while boarding a Statue of Liberty ferryboat. Eventually, it is Jon who ends up in Vietnam. As he is being interviewed in a rice paddy by a newsman, he spots a female member of the Viet Cong and cuts the interview short in an attempt to persuade the girl to remove her clothing. Back in the United States, President Johnson appears on television, to assure Americans: "We've never had it so good."
Director
Brian De Palma
Cast
Jonathan Warden
Robert De Niro
Gerritt Graham
Richard Hamilton
Megan Mccormick
Bettina Kugel
Jack Cowley
Jane Lee Salmons
Ashley Oliver
Melvin Margulies
Cynthia Peltz
Peter Maloney
Ruth Alda
Ted Lescault
Mona Feit
M. Dobish
Richard Landis
Carol Patton
Allen Garfield
Sara-jo Edlin
Roz Kelly
Ray Tuttle
Tisa Chiang
Rex Marshall
Crew
The Children Of Paradise
Brian De Palma
Brian De Palma
Robert Fiore
Charles Hirsch
Charles Hirsch
Jeffrey Lesser
Jeffrey Lesser
George Manasse
Charles Pitts
Chuck Shields
Chuck Shields
Daniel Weiss
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
You've heard of 'Pop Art' right? Well this is 'Peep Art'.- Jon Rubin
Like the fisherman who keeps a list of areas where fishing is especially good, the peeper has in mind a number of particularly livley places to which he returns....hmmm- Jon Rubin
Trivia
This was the first film in the United States to receive an "X" rating (in its original release). It opened in New York on 15 December 1968.
Notes
Location scenes filmed in New York City and Secaucus, New Jersey.
Miscellaneous Notes
Winner of the Silver Bear Award at the 1968 Berlin Film Festival.
Released in United States 1968
Released in United States December 10, 1968
Released in United States October 1996
Released in United States on Video September 6, 1989
Released in United States Winter December 1968
Shown at the 1968 Berlin Film Festival.
Robert DeNiro's first public screen debut. ("The Wedding Party" was completed first, but released afterwards)
Began shooting in early 1968.
Released in United States 1968 (Shown at the 1968 Berlin Film Festival.)
Released in United States on Video September 6, 1989
Released in United States October 1996 (Shown at AFI/Los Angeles International Film Festival (AFI FEST All-Night Movie Marathon 1996 - On the Verge: Hollywood and the End of Censorship 1960-1970) October 18-31, 1996.)
Released in United States Winter December 1968
Released in United States December 10, 1968 (Previewed at the Rizzoli Screening Room in New York City, December 10, 1968.)
