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I Love You, Alice B. Toklas

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Successful, strait-laced Jewish lawyer Harold Fine (Peter Sellers) takes a walk on the wild side after reluctantly agreeing to marry his long-time girlfriend, Joyce (Joyce Van Patten). Unexpectedly smitten by his hippie brother's flower-child girlfriend, Nancy (Leigh Taylor-Young), and her potent, marijuana-laced brownies, Harold ditches his establishment life and embraces communal living with Nancy, only to realize the freewheeling life might not be all that it seemed.
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Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times 09/30/2006
3/4
This first half of the film is the best, as Sellers gradually bends the middle-class into non-class. Go to Full Review Vincent Canby New York Times 09/30/2006
2/5
By the end of it I was feeling a certain amount of resentment at having been had, along with Alice B. Toklas, whose name, apparently, is to become an automatic laugh, like smog and girdle. Go to Full Review Penelope Houston The Spectator 09/26/2020
This dimly predictable comedy tries to have its hashish cake and eat it several times over. Go to Full Review Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews 01/13/2010
C+
The caricatures of hippies at best will earn cheap laughs. Go to Full Review Mark Bourne DVDJournal.com 06/18/2006
It's conventional and derivative and middlebrow enough to fall back on broad stereotypes of what audiences in Omaha thought of the 'hippie movement.' Go to Full Review David Cornelius DVDTalk.com 06/15/2006
2/5
It's an embarrassment in Sellers' career, one best forgotten and/or ignored. Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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Alain E @AlainE Feb 23 Not so bad as some think and not super great either. A straight laced middle class Jewish attorney engaged to be married meets this hot hippie girl and does a 180 degree and becomes a hippie himself and has a relationship with the girl. When things go south he shaves his long hair and reconnects with his fiancée. In a limited preview of Groundhog Day his second attempt to marry her is also unsuccessful. We last see him on the street trying to reorient himself. The late Peter Sellers is convincing as the main character. See more P. N Jan 15 It's a satire and an extremely hilarious one. I have no idea what these other folks watched, but never mind the status quo and give it a looksee. It's a very funny movie. Mazursky was a genius. Perfect cast. See more 09/02/2022 A comedy without any comedy in it. A complete misfire. Sellers is miscast; the producer should have called Woody Allen for the lead and had him punch up the script before a single frame was shot. See more dave s 09/01/2022 Paul Mazursky wrote some great screenplays over his long career. I Love You, Alice B. Toklas wasn't one of them. Peter Sellers, a comic genius, brought some great characters to life over his long career. That's not the case with I Love You, Alice B. Toklas. Sellers plays Harold Fine, a conservative L.A. lawyer who leaves his bride at the alter after eating some pot brownies and having sex with a hot hippie. The last thirty minutes of the movie are almost unbearable to watch as Harold grows out his hair and becomes a part of the ‘60s counter culture, thus making the first hour of the movie look like Citizen Kane in comparison. Sellers does his best to make things work, but I Love You, Alice B. Toklas is ultimately a comedy without humor or a satire with nothing to say. See more Frances H 11/19/2020 I usually love Peter Sellers, but this movie was a big disappointment. See more 02/01/2019 The best comedy movie ever made! See more Read all reviews
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Hy Averback

Director

Peter Sellers

Harold

Jo Van Fleet

Mother

Leigh Taylor-Young

Nancy

Joyce Van Patten

Joyce

David Arkin

Herbie

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Synopsis Successful, strait-laced Jewish lawyer Harold Fine (Peter Sellers) takes a walk on the wild side after reluctantly agreeing to marry his long-time girlfriend, Joyce (Joyce Van Patten). Unexpectedly smitten by his hippie brother's flower-child girlfriend, Nancy (Leigh Taylor-Young), and her potent, marijuana-laced brownies, Harold ditches his establishment life and embraces communal living with Nancy, only to realize the freewheeling life might not be all that it seemed.
Director
Hy Averback
Producer
Charles H. Maguire
Screenwriter
Paul Mazursky, Larry Tucker
Distributor
Warner Bros. Pictures
Production Co
Warner Brothers/Seven Arts
Rating
R
Genre
Comedy
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Oct 18, 1968, Original
Release Date (Streaming)
Oct 18, 2010
Runtime
1h 33m
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