This is a 70s look at the lives of radicals during the 60s. You really got to know the main characters. I especially liked Art Carney and Henry Winkler. Art Carney showed that he was not only a great comedian, but a pretty passable actor. Carney plays the good hearted father, who has made wealth and fortune in his life. However, he is not aware that his very giving of all this fortune to his daughter, at her age (late teens/early 20s) means that she feels lack of ownership for her own fate. Carney plays a father who loves his daughter, but can't understand why she acts the way she does.
Winkler is excellent as a radical, who had so much charisma and earthiness, that you could see him as one of these radicals turned Wall Street banker in the 1980s. You don't know what is driving his rage, except that it might be his Jewishness in the 70s still makes him feel like an outsider. He is sad, because he had a good heart. He impressed the father (Carney) of his lover (Spacek) with his intelligence and coolness. He didn't want to lose the baby from his pregnant girlfriend.
However, when the 60s turned into the nasty early 70s, he is overwhelmed by the arguments of the paranoid, extremist. One woman impresses him with her fierceness in a radical meeting. From there it is all downhill. He becomes an insane monster, who has lost his humanity.
You feel that Katherine (Spacek) is typical of some Baby Boomers raised in wealthy families. She is, at first, the loyal daughter. However, she soon finds out and fears that the wealth that her father attained has nothing to do with her. She can't live up to her wealth, so she rebels and becomes the opposite.
There are hard lessons. She goes to South America to help out, but soon discovers that even the wealthy there have strong resentment about the intrusion of Europeans and Americans in their affairs. She tries to help out a black school in the South, but finds out that the people on both sides of the racial divide have their own agendas. She is a young woman lost in a World where she knows not what she really is and what she stands for.
Winkler is excellent as a radical, who had so much charisma and earthiness, that you could see him as one of these radicals turned Wall Street banker in the 1980s. You don't know what is driving his rage, except that it might be his Jewishness in the 70s still makes him feel like an outsider. He is sad, because he had a good heart. He impressed the father (Carney) of his lover (Spacek) with his intelligence and coolness. He didn't want to lose the baby from his pregnant girlfriend.
However, when the 60s turned into the nasty early 70s, he is overwhelmed by the arguments of the paranoid, extremist. One woman impresses him with her fierceness in a radical meeting. From there it is all downhill. He becomes an insane monster, who has lost his humanity.
You feel that Katherine (Spacek) is typical of some Baby Boomers raised in wealthy families. She is, at first, the loyal daughter. However, she soon finds out and fears that the wealth that her father attained has nothing to do with her. She can't live up to her wealth, so she rebels and becomes the opposite.
There are hard lessons. She goes to South America to help out, but soon discovers that even the wealthy there have strong resentment about the intrusion of Europeans and Americans in their affairs. She tries to help out a black school in the South, but finds out that the people on both sides of the racial divide have their own agendas. She is a young woman lost in a World where she knows not what she really is and what she stands for.