Wild in the Streets

  • Comedy
  • Drama
  • Music
5/29/1968
94
R

If you're thirty, you're through!

Musician Max Frost lends his backing to a Senate candidate who wants to give 18-year-olds the right to vote, but he takes things a step further than expected. Inspired by their hero's words, Max's fans pressure their leaders into extending the vote to citizens as young as 15. Max and his followers capitalize on their might by bringing new issues to the fore, but, drunk on power, they soon take generational warfare to terrible extremes.

Director:
Budget:
$1,000,000

Videos

Cast

Reviews

  • Wuchak

    Ambitious 60s teensploitation satire is amusing, but with dull storytelling

    A new band in SoCal rises to popularity led by the charismatic Max Frost (Christopher Jones). He uses his position to unite youths and enters politics with the intent of granting teens the right to vote during the turbulent Vietnam era. Shelley Winters plays Max wacky mother, Hal Holbrook a supportive senator and Millie Perkins his wife.

    "Wild in the Streets" (1968) is a cult flick that satirizes the serious issues of the psychedelic 60s. It doesn't choose sides between young and old or liberal and conservative, but is a mocking jibe at both. It inspired the short-lived DC comic Prez from 1973.

    There are some catchy 60s tunes written by Barry Mann a...

    August 23, 2022

Recommendations

Similar Movies