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Wild in the Streets

2012 1h 22m Documentary List
Reviews 71% Popcornmeter 500+ Ratings
The people of Ashbourne gather every winter to renew the longest-running sports rivalry on Earth.

Critics Reviews

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Michael Rechtshaffen Hollywood Reporter An engagingly oddball sports documentary that's as much about community as it is about competition. Jun 4, 2014 Full Review Jeff Meyers Metro Times (Detroit, MI) Colorful residents, nifty archival footage and narration by actor Sean Bean, who grew up less than 30 miles from Ashbourne, help provide context for Baxter's energetic exploration of what may be the oldest ongoing sports rivalry on Earth. Rated: B+ Jun 4, 2014 Full Review Scott Beggs Film School Rejects Ultimately, much like the 2-day game itself, that makes for a fun, yet forgettable diversion. Rated: B- Jun 4, 2014 Full Review Read all reviews

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Audience Member When rock and roll star Jones wants the people to follow they listen. Like a maniac cult leader he doese the water in D.C. with LSD and has congress change the voting age to 14 and with the majority of voters he gets elected to be president. Swift changes forcing 30 years old to retire and 35 and older they are sent to POW camps to be enlightened. Far out and almost sci fiction, this movie has groovy songs and wild attire of the late 60's. a real turn on, man! Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/23/23 Full Review Audience Member Not a good movie, but a thought provoking premise. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/19/23 Full Review Audience Member A good but quirky movie for 1968. A very dated film at present Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/21/23 Full Review Audience Member Now here's something you don't se every day. Imagine David Hasselhoff joining The Kinks/The Doors in 1968 and kind of takes over the whole of the USA. The voting age is lowered to 14 years of age and the whole country is thrown into anarchy. It's ridicolous, It featuers film footage from Vietnam protests that have absolutely nothing to do with the plot. We are served the idea that beeing young is beeing a threat to society itself. The whole thing is so stupid it makes fun sence. I do regret not being more drunk watching this for the first time. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/25/23 Full Review Audience Member Hippie dippy ridiculousness is a true artifact of it's time. Preposterous concept of lowering the retirement age to 30 and impounding all the retirees in militant psychodelic camps is silly enough but throw in all the groovy 60's speak, far out outfits and Shelley Winters abandoning any pretext of modulating her performance and what you end up with is not the happening experience the producers were surely hoping for but a sloppy mess that if nothing else is good for a few laughs. Peace out baby! Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/27/23 Full Review Audience Member A poorly conceived, shoddily shot, mean-spirited farce. That is not to say that there aren't some groovy moments. But really, was subjecting Shelley Winters to her pathetic outcomes worth any narrative point? And what's with Christopher Jones's (a pre-muscled-Zac-Efron resembler) weird ponytail? Hal Holbrook was excellent, and that's as much enthusiasm as I can muster. Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 02/20/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis The people of Ashbourne gather every winter to renew the longest-running sports rivalry on Earth.
Director
Peter Baxter
Producer
Peter Baxter, James Zalcman
Screenwriter
Peter Baxter, Jay Nelson
Production Co
Ocule Films
Genre
Documentary
Original Language
English
Runtime
1h 22m