Alice's Restaurant

Alice's Restaurant (1969) starring Arlo Guthrie, Pat Quinn, James Broderick. Amateurish movie incorporates the song "The Alice's Restaurant Massacree" into it's otherwise flabby plot. Not much is going on here, and the acting is really not up to snuff. Some good music is included, along with a guest appearance by Pete Seeger. This film really seems like an anachronism. I was expecting to feel some nostalgia for the '60s, but the effect was the opposite. Did we really look like that? Did we really act like that? Phoo-eee. (The disc has closed captions, so the hearing-impaired aren't entirely left out.) Grade: C