Rating: R
Genre:
Comedy
Release Date: 11/01/2002
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD
Run Time: 88 Minutes
Distributor/Studio: Platinum Disc
If for nothing else,
Greetings would be memorable as the second feature-length directorial effort of
Brian DePalma (his first, 1966's
The Wedding Party, was released shortly afterward). A satire of late-1960s manners and mores, the film aims its barbs at
Lyndon B. Johnson, Vietnam, the draft, the counterculture, Greenwich Village and the
John F. Kennedy assassination. Billed first,
Robert DeNiro actually has a supporting role as a young longhair who tries to help his best pal (
Jonathan Warden) flunk his Army physical.
Gerrit Graham is a JFK conspiracy theorist who may well have good reason to be paranoid. Though largely ignored by the mainstream press in America,
Greetings was effusively honored at the 1969
Berlin Film Festival. The film was originally rated X due to its considerable sexual content.
~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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