Taking Off Summary
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Milos Forman
Genres: Comedy Drama
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Czech filmmaker Milos_Forman's first American production stars Linnea_Heacock as Jeannie Tyne, a runaway teenager. While she wanders aimlessly around New York, her suburban parents, Lynn (Lynn_Carlin) and Larry (Buck_Henry), desperately search for their "missing" daughter. Larry and his best friend, Tony (Tony_Harvey), inaugurate a search, but their expedition is sidetracked by a drinking binge at a local bar. Meanwhile, Lynn and Tony's wife, Margot (Georgia_Engel), begin discussing their sex lives. Jeannie does finally return home, to constant questioning by her parents about which drugs she has taken; later, after Lynn and Larry join a support group for the parents of runaway children, they turn around and get stoned on marijuana themselves during one of the group meetings, then lapse into a randy game of strip poker -- little realizing that their daughter is close at hand and within earshot. As a critically revered lampoon of late-'60s sensibilities, Taking Off is full of "unknown" Manhattan-based performers who became famous during the '70s and '80s, including Paul_Benedict, Vincent_Schiavelli, Allen_Garfield, Audra_Lindley, and, in fleeting roles as auditioning singers, Carly_Simon, who performs "Long Time Physical Effects," and Kathy_Bates (billed as Bobo_Bates), who performs "Even the Horses Had Wings." Hal Erickson, Rovi
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