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A draft dodger (Jonathan Warden), a filmmaker (Robert De Niro) and a Kennedy-assassination theorist (Gerrit Graham) do their things in New York.
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Kim Newman Empire Magazine 03/07/2011
3/5
Messy, but lively and surprisingly funny. Go to Full Review
Eric Henderson Slant Magazine 08/22/2006
3/4
Greetings, and salutations to a career destined to be pockmarked by provocation. Go to Full Review
Derek Adams Time Out 06/24/2006
Silly and substantial. Go to Full Review
Alan Jones Radio Times Jul 2
3/5
Slapdash, vulgar and smug, it was a huge youth culture hit, caused an explosion in the independent underground in the US and spawned the sequel Hi, Mom!. Go to Full Review
Harvey G. Cox Tempo (National Council of Churches) 01/06/2021
Though it falls noticeably short of technical perfection, Greetings is fun to see. More than that. It is poignant, sad, hilarious and, at points, even moving. Go to Full Review
Paul Schrader Los Angeles Free Press 01/23/2020
The funniest and most contemporary American comedy since Dr. Strangelove... DePalma blends the comic styles of Godard and The Committee. Go to Full Review
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Mubin H Jul 16 Lovely Movie, a movie like this deserves to have a literal award even so many years later, the comedy is priceless, plus there's De Niro! The sequel "Hi,Mom!" Is a must watch too! See more delysid d 02/21/2019 a horrible, brain-ache inducing experience See more 01/25/2018 Silly but with reason. Very funny. See more 08/14/2016 Unfunny and boring. Has aged about as well as left-out milk. See more 08/07/2016 Took a lot of patience to sit through this. Watching all the movies in Danny Peary's book, 100 Cult Movies, in case Suspect Video closes shop when the Honest Ed's neighbourhood changes. Weird bleeps, inter titles -between vignettes, no plot -, breaking the 4th wall, cuts to LBJ speech footage. Peary: A) This was made super cheaply and De Palma's always sloppy. Likewise, he says with De Palma, the guys are obnoxious jerks and the women are dumb, and really just there to have sex with. B) They're Godardian/Brechtian "alienation" devices to remind you it's a film I'll buy that, especially in combo with his idea that the 3 characters end up on the wrong end of aggressive 'cinematic' tools (in porn, on news from Viet Nam, and -metaphorically- by being assassinated by a lone gunman). Peary really goes to town on the references in this to other filmmakers. He figures it's made for filmmakers and students, and also for disenfranchised, alienated young folks of the time, and it's amazing that it got distributed at all. See more 01/06/2016 It's hard to know what to make of this early film from Brian De Palma - it's sort of a cross between those Godard films where everyone just delivers monologues to the camera and those Warhol films where non-actors sit around and talk about or engage in trashy behaviour. And it's a comedy or filmed in a comic vein that is pretty easy-going and never really boring. Three guys try to get out of going to Vietnam by flunking their draft physical, debate the Warren Commission results, engage in computer dates, and create films that peeping toms might love. But mostly they just talk. Some of their monologues are dirty and some are funny. You feel like you are with a bunch of goof-offs who are pretty good at enjoying themselves. One of the guys happens to be Robert De Niro (in his first film). Allen Garfield has a good bit as a smut peddler. But, yeah, De Palma seems to have been a pervert from the start. Godard and Warhol may have had more to say. See more Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis A draft dodger (Jonathan Warden), a filmmaker (Robert De Niro) and a Kennedy-assassination theorist (Gerrit Graham) do their things in New York.
Director
Brian De Palma
Producer
Charles Hirsch
Screenwriter
Charles Hirsch, Brian De Palma
Production Co
West End Films
Rating
R
Genre
Comedy
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
Mar 24, 2016
Runtime
1h 28m
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