The '60s Summary
MPAA Rating: PG13
Director: Mark Piznarski
Genres: Drama
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Originally aired as a two-part miniseries on NBC, The 60's follows two families whose lives mirror much of the political and social tumult of that decade. The Herlihys are a working class family from Chicago whose three children take wildly divergent paths: Brian (Jerry O'Connell) joins the Marines right out of High School and goes to Vietnam, Michael (Josh_Hamilton) becomes involved in the civil rights movement and after campaigning for Bobby Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy becomes involved in radical politics, and Katie (Julia_Stiles) gets pregnant, moves to San Francisco and joins a hippie commune. Meanwhile, the Taylors are an African-American family living in the deep South. When Willie Taylor (Charles_S._Dutton), a minister and civil rights organizer, is shot to death, his son Emmet (Leonard_Roberts) moves to the city and eventually joins the Black Panthers, serving as a bodyguard for Fred Hampton (David_Alan_Grier). The 60's incorporates much newsreel footage from the era in an attempt to give the proceedings a greater realism, as well as a soundtrack of many popular songs of the era, including a new recording of Bob_Dylan's Chimes Of Freedom by Dylan and Joan Osborne. Mark Deming, Rovi
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