The acting in this movie is really good.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

The 60's. The year of the revolution. It's The Squares vs. The Flower Children. More likely "Hippies". While the common man work and provide the way they do best: Working for a living to provide. While the Hippie culture are considered to be the "Slackers". Sitting around, smoking pot, and roaming around in psychedelic vehicles. Peter Sellers(1925-80), plays Attorney Harold Fine, a very serious man who has happened to propose to his girlfriend, Joyce (Joyce Van Patten) when the family butcher dies, his brother living in Venice Beach happen to be a hippie. His girlfriend, Nancy (Leigh Taylor- Young) started to take a liking to Harold. Not only does he began to resent his life, he decided to delve into the hippie lifestyle after sampling Nancy's pot brownies. When he walked out of his wedding day, he started to get involved with Nancy in more ways than one. The best part of the film is when Harold kisses the butterfly tattoo on her thigh. After time, he finds out that the hippie life is not for him. Finding yourself is always something, indecision can hamper anyone. Are you happy where you are at? This movie is kind of interesting to see. You must know what the lifestyle is best for you. I can't make that for you. Watch the movie and see for yourself 3 out of 5 stars.

For the first time ever, I got to hear from Peter Sellers sounded like with his real voice. He plays the part of a conventional 35 year old Jewish attorney engaged to his secretary. All this changes rapidly when he meets his hippie brother's girlfriend and falls for her, leaving his bride-to-be at the altar.The film was a definite triumph for Jo Van Fleet. In my wildest imagination, I never thought that she could do such a fantastic job as his mother in a comical role. She throws out Jewish expressions and must have remembered her vivid portrayal 13 years before as Susan Hayward's mother in "I'll Cry Tomorrow."The picture is basically a story of the wild 1960s with just about everything going.

I saw this in '68 when I was about in the same place Harold Fine was, in his social development. I was already married and had kids though. At the time of its release this seemed like an important movie. It was funny and satiric but it ended in a positive note for someone ready to drop out. If we'd only known where that was going to lead, but it was fun for a time.I'm so glad I revisited this over 40 years later (yikes!!) Some of the film I remembered as if I saw it yesterday. Some scenes I had no recollection of. Peter Sellers is marvelous and the rest of the cast is fine. It is a time capsule of a film and really blends film styles. It has a definite TV flavor. Hy Averback mostly worked in TV so that's not a surprise. The film though, is authentic to the time and it was fun to watch for this old hippie.

Sellar's character's arc from legal beagle to hippie starts slow. Watching the progress requires paying attention to the details in why his quest for Ms. Taylor-Young is so primal (I related), but once the film hits the mid-point (when she sleeps over his place) it makes sharp observations about: wedding planning, the purpose (love vs. guns) behind the social movement of the 60's against "the establishment", and the hilarious effects of accidental recreational drug use.If you live in Los Angeles, you will appreciate the exterior scenes in the Venice Beach neighborhood and other areas which we frequent in the present world and how much they have/have not changed since the film was made. The ending comment on Sellar's character's choice NOT to walk down the aisle is not entirely plausible (for my taste) as I found "Joyce" a pleasant enough woman to marry and who is 110% in love w/ him.