Rude Awakening

R

1989

1 hr. 40 min.

Comedy

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19%

21 Reviews

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49%

250+ Ratings

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After 20 years in a jungle commune, two hippies (Cheech Marin, Eric Roberts) return to New York and find their friends are now yuppies.

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First time rewatch since I saw it in theaters over 30 years ago. It holds up. Cheech and Eric Roberts are great in this.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

07/11/22

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This movie is great for us "old hippies." Saw it on DVD today and can't fin it on any of the digital sites. Please give us access to this movie!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/18/23

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Old hippies come out of their commune to modern day NYC and discover their old friends are now yuppies. This black comedy is well written and surprisingly good.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/09/23

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***Due to the recent RT changes that have basically ruined my past reviews, I am mostly only giving a rating rather than a full review.***

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

02/09/23

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I LOVED this movie. It was fabulous... for all of us YUPPIES... It was sooooooo funny... even my 13 year old loved it... and now wishes she was born in the 60's or 70's... :)

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/18/23

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A silly farce with a lack of good jokes. Would have worked better is Tommy Chong had partnered Cheech Marin.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

02/19/23

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Aaron Russo

Director

David Greenwalt

Director

Cheech Marin

Jesus Montea

Eric Roberts

Fred Wook

Julie Hagerty

Petra Black

Robert Carradine

Sammy Margolin

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Dave Kehr

Chicago Tribune

It's far from being a professional job, but Rude Awakening probably wouldn't be as much fun if it were.

Rated: 3/4

Jul 11, 2014

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Jay Boyar

Orlando Sentinel

The movie is very uneven, but it does manage to do a couple of crucial things that those tributes haven't. It shows us the zany heart of '60s counterculture, and it reminds us that the zaniness was a form of political expression.

Rated: 3/5

Jul 11, 2014

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Rob Beattie

Empire Magazine

With ideals higher than it's leading men, this film can only fall short, failing to back up its flimsy philosophising.

Rated: 2/5

Jul 11, 2014

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Gary Thompson

Philadelphia Daily News

Rude Awakening is a shallow yuppie vs. hippie satire blended with one of those old Cheech and Chong reefer flicks.

Rated: 1.5/4

Jul 11, 2014

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Roger Hurlburt

South Florida Sun-Sentinel

Released smack-dab in the middle of so-called Woodstock Week, the comedy Rude Awakening is an often well-intentioned, yet mostly misguided comedic flashback into the drug culture of the 1960s.

Rated: 1.5/4

Jul 11, 2014

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Jo Berry

Radio Times

Nice idea, but this is silly rather than comical, and the jokes are hammered home far too hard.

Rated: 2/5

Jul 11, 2014

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Synopsis

After 20 years in a jungle commune, two hippies (Cheech Marin, Eric Roberts) return to New York and find their friends are now yuppies.

Director: Aaron Russo, David Greenwalt
Screenwriter: Neil Levy
Rating: R
Genre: Comedy
Original Language: English
Box Office (Gross USA): $2.4M
Sound Mix: Surround