Writer Bobby Roth

The action opens with The Fixing To Die Rag, Country Joe and the Fish. That’s the only music in the movie that sounds like it came fro 1968 to 1972. 

Every actor playing a student is too old They should all appear as teenagers. Sticking a beard on a guy does not make that a Berkeley student in 1968; each appears older than thirty and remember: Don’t trust anyone older than thirty!

The film is not shot in Berkeley. There’s the door of William Shakespeare & Company (closed); there’s part of Sather Gate and Wheeler Hall, and the cross-campus road ending at Sather Tower (the Campanile). Internal scenes were shot on other campuses or rooms at other institutions. Eternal scenes were shot on other campuses, like U.S.C.

Newly admitted protagonist did not live in the dorms or in a coop. He lives in a well-tended bungalow house in well-tended neighborhoods. No neighborhood in Berkeley like those exists. 

Dialogue is high school stuff. Moods, Vietnam, race, drugs, birth control, etc and be in the in-crowd, right? After the Fall of 1967 there were few anti-Vietnam war demonstrations in Berkley. Public relations had put them in San Francisco where marchers ended up in Golden Gate Park.

Social activism seems to be confined to learning to do drugs, drop acid, smoke wee, play in a rock-band and screw any 30 year woman who happened to be on the set that day. The protagonist should have gone to a Junior College.