Amazon.com: Customer Reviews: Serial
"Forgetting for a moment that this DVD looks mediocre at best, with poorly balanced and muffled sound, I've still got to recommend it.
Everything about this movie is pure catnip for me - the ferry boat, making dates for the orgy, the Volvo, Preacher Tommy Smothers' New Age emasculating wedding vows, communes, hot tubs, Mill Valley shrinks, coke, my Hollywood High School classmate Tuesday Weld as the aspiring New Age Marinite, and Christopher Lee with his fleet of gay bikers.
I can get dizzy singing the praises of this movie - Sally Kellerman at her mandala-positioned sex focused best, early-onset hatred of the 60s in everyone's kids, and all the pre-Aids hook-ups you can eat.
Martin Mull surprises with his steadiness in this film - his performance grounds the plot and gives the ending believability, yet his unique delivery is everywhere an advantage. And there are tons of great little moments - from a jilted Nita Talbot screaming at Bill Macy "you're going to have a coronary" to the cultists chanting "We love you Joanie, oh yes we do..."
I was in the music and film business and lived in Marin for 30 years, including the new age 70s, and though it's populated by different beings now, this film, more subtle than originally noticed, will forever bring it to life for everyone - especially those wondering what "Mellow Marin" meant?... or why we needed a Rainbow Tunnel, or how perfection seemed to settle like a mist on this special place on the other side of the Golden Gate Bridge."
Sunday, October 02, 2011
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