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10/18/08
Taking Off (1971)
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Reviews Counted:6
Fresh:6
Rotten:0
Average Rating:7.3/10
Runtime: 1 hr 33 mins
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Lynn Carlin, Buck Henry, Georgia Engel, Audra Lindley
Director: Milos Formanova
Reviews for Taking Off
1 - 8 (sorted by date; UK critics are listed first)
Top CriticForman's first American film is an idiosyncratic and original take on the generation gap.
06/18/08
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03/26/09
Top CriticMr. Forman's specialty is tender farce played out in what are, essentially, very bleak circumstances.
06/18/08
Top CriticAt the time of its release, critics welcomed the Czech-born Forman's skewed perspective on a transitional period of American culture, but today the film, like so much else from the late 60s and early 70s, can best be appreciated as a historical curio.
06/18/08
Top CriticAn engaging, episodic, wonderfully fair-minded satire about runaway children and anxious adults.
06/18/08
Forman’s career pivot point between Prague’s film-school halls and the Oscars podium is still a prime example of the way a foreign director can apply an outsider’s perspective to something like Nixon’s Amerikkka and draw blood.
06/18/08
It remains his [Milos Forman's] best film in and about America.
06/18/08
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