Getting Straight
Getting Straight is a 1970 American comedy film motion picture directed by Richard Rush, released by Columbia Pictures.
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| Directed by | Richard Rush |
| Screenplay by | Robert Kaufman |
| Based on | Getting Straight 1967 novel by Ken Kolb |
| Produced by | Richard Rush |
| Starring | Elliott Gould Candice Bergen |
| Cinematography | László Kovács |
| Edited by | Maury Winetrobe |
| Music by | Ronald Stein |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
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Running time | 124 mins |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $13,300,000 |
The story centered upon student politics at a university in the early 1970s, seen through the eyes of non-conformist graduate student Harry Bailey (Elliott Gould). Also featured in the cast were Candice Bergen as Bailey's girlfriend, Jeff Corey as Bailey's professor, Robert F. Lyons as his draft-avoiding friend Nick, and Harrison Ford as a fellow teaching student and his girlfriend's neighbor.
Getting Straight was released during an era of change and unrest in the United States in the late 1960s and early '70s, and was in a long line of films that dealt with these themes. Other films of this period with similar themes were Medium Cool (1969), R. P. M. (1970), and The Strawberry Statement (1970).