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9 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 60Village VoiceVillage VoiceLoosely based on writer-director Adam Sherman's similar cult upbringing and disillusionment, the film builds on a fascinating cautionary tale, but doesn't develop its characters past whatever movie-of-the-week crisis each suffers from.
- 50Boxoffice MagazineAmy NicholsonBoxoffice MagazineAmy NicholsonWe get the broad strokes of how the hippies corrupted their own movement, but there isn't a single lead character we'd give a dollar to on Haight Street.
- 40New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierNew York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierThe kids' story gets out of control, but Andie MacDowell is a pleasantly earthy mess as Victor's out-of-it mother, and familiar New York faces (Ann Magnuson, Mark Boone Jr., Richard Edson) lend quirky support as the out-of-it elders.
- 40VarietyVarietySherman's personal wounds feel fresh, which makes for a superficially beautiful but otherwise bitter story.
- 20Time OutStephen GarrettTime OutStephen GarrettSherman based this obtuse psychosexual dystopia on his own hippie upbringing; the result is virtually teeming with bitter resentment for the drug-addled parent collective that inadvertently turned his adolescence into a chapter from "Lord of the Flies."
- 20The Hollywood ReporterSheri LindenThe Hollywood ReporterSheri LindenAn overwrought and undernourished drama.
- An astoundingly bad memory piece that blows its potential dramatic heft at every turn.
- 0The New York TimesStephen HoldenThe New York TimesStephen HoldenThis strident exposé may gladden the hearts of some anti-’60s conservatives, but it is a shapeless mess steeped in prurience. Its grain of truthfulness, however, is just enough to leave you unsettled in the pit of your stomach.