The '60s ( The 60's )

The '60s (DVD) (*)

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Alternate Title: The 60's
Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
German ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
German ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Germany ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
166 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Biographies
Featurette
Filmographies
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 1999 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Mark Piznarski

Written By:
Bill Couturié (story) &
Robert Greenfield (story) ...

Actors:
Josh Hamilton ..... Michael Herlihy
Julia Stiles ..... Katie Herlihy
Jerry O'Connell ..... Brian Herlihy
Jeremy Sisto ..... Kenny Klein
Jordana Brewster ..... Sarah Weinstock
Leonard Roberts ..... Emmet Taylor
Bill Smitrovich ..... Bill Herlihy
Annie Corley ..... Mary Herlihy
Donovan Leitch ..... Neal Reynolds
David Alan Grier ..... Fred Hampton
Cliff Gorman ..... Father Daniel Berrigan
Charles S. Dutton ..... Reverend Willie Taylor (as Charles Dutton)
April Mills ..... Constance
Marc Blucas ..... Buddy Wells
Jenna Byrne ..... Melissa

Synopsis:

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.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 15 October, 2009.

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