I Love You, Alice B. Toklas

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I Love You, Alice B. Toklas

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Directed by Hy Averback
Produced by Pato Guzman
Paul Mazursky
Larry Tucker
Written by Paul Mazursky
Larry Tucker
Starring Peter Sellers
Jo Van Fleet
Leigh Taylor-Young
Joyce Van Patten
David Arkin
Music by Elmer Bernstein
Cinematography Philip H. Lathrop
Editing by Robert Jones
Distributed by Warner Brothers
Release date(s) 1968
Running time 94 min.
Country U.S.A.
Language English
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Released at the height of the hippie era, the film I Love You, Alice B. Toklas (1968) tells the story of one Harold Fine (Peter Sellers), a self-described "square" lawyer, and his theatrical mother played by Jo Van Fleet.

The movie was directed by Hy Averback.

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Harold Fine is set to marry his longtime girlfriend Joyce, but Harold is having deep second thoughts. He encounters his brother, a hippie living in Venice Beach, and falls for an attractive flower power hippie girl who has a knack for making pot brownies (hence the title of the film). Harold ends up running out of his wedding to live with the hippie girl and attempts to find himself as well with the aid of a guru (or does he?).

The film reaches into the idea that society is an inescapable concept that is much larger than a simple set of rules and consequences.

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