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Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Lions Gate
EAN: 9781573629195
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 1573629197
Label: Lions Gate
Manufacturer: Lions Gate
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Lions Gate
Region Code: 1
Release Date: July 25, 2000
Running Time: 170 minutes
Sales Rank: 19450
Studio: Lions Gate
Theatrical Release Date: April 30, 2000
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
One decade will change four lives forever kent state students byron christie eileen and dexter are caught in the middle of americas political unrest when several students are massacred on their campus for protesting the vietnam war. Their lives take radically different directions during this infamous chapter. Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. Release Date: 09/23/2003 Starring: Amy Smart Vinessa Shaw Rating: Nr Director: Peter Werner
Amazon.com:
In 170 minutes, this NBC-produced miniseries hoped to capture a decade--and in many ways, it did. The '70s traces the lives of four friends from their senior year at Kent State (marked by the killing of four student protestors by the National Guard) through the era of Watergate and Tang. At its worst, it's a so-so soap opera held together by fascinating bits of historical trivia, giving equal time to the issues of the era (the Equal Rights Amendment, the oil crisis) and inescapable bits of pop culture (Mary Tyler Moore and the hustle). The characters are pretty obviously engineered to plumb every angle of the decade's cultural topography: the young black National Guardmember who deserts to Los Angeles in time to join the Black Panthers and open a cinema featuring hits like Shaft and Cleopatra Jones, the sorority girl turned disco queen turned California cultist, the young intellectual woman who finds feminism and abandons marriage in favor of a career, and the conservative law student turned Watergate burglar turned pipeline worker turned environmentalist. The acting's not bad and the story hangs together, but the show is really at its best when the soundtrack takes over, allowing montages of memorable photos and archival film clips to reveal (and revel in) the real history behind the melodrama. --Grant Balfour
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - Disco Ducko
There was no more turbulent era, except for the late 60s, than the free wheeling, drug drenched disco 70's. The decade started with the Kent State incident, and the Lt. Calley Mai Lai Massacre and ended with Jimmy Carter's reign of mismanaged government.
The 70's mini series is fun to watch if you lived through the era, as I did. The dialogue is straight out of SNL and the wardrobes reminded me of my mis-spent youth.
However, it does not, no fictionized series could, capture the the ... Read More
Rating:  - Born in the 70s, learned a lot about the times.
The story lines were fascinating of a group of friends and how they all lived in the same times, and had such a different take on the 1970s. It was amazing to see such a diverse contrast between their lives when they were all a part of the same townships, the same time, and yet they all led very different lives and had very different experiences that led them to very different futures. (How's that for not giving away any endings.)
My favorite part about this movie were all the clippings ... Read More
Rating: - Loved it!
I found this movie along with another titled The '60's in a bargin bin at a swap meet. I paid 2 dollars for both. I enjoyed them so much I would have paid full price. I wondered if there was a third movie titled The '80's but Studio 54 was as close as I could find. Being born too late to remember the 60's, The '70's actually did spark memories for me, specifically cult fanatics and all the runaway teens who joined them. Vinessa Shaw is an absolute doll, I've had the hots for her since Hocus Pocus. ... Read More
Rating: - Not quite as good as the precursor
One shouldn't expect too much from what was a made-for-tv miniseries, with no real big names, but altogether it was a very good involving story. It followed the course of the decade from start to finish very nicely, encorporating in music and actual footage of the historic events together with the respective storylines of the four main characters. Still, it just doesn't seem quite as gripping and involving as the prior movie 'The '60s,' where there seemed to be more character development instead of, ... Read More
Rating: - What a MOVIE!!!
What an amazingly well done and well acted and well thought off movie...
All I can say is that if anyone had to try to make a better movie for the same historical period, I have a hard time believing it could be better made...
Congratulations to all who have parteciapated to the making of the movie.
Every actor was great. Superb acting from Amy Smart.
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