Fresh
It's far from being a professional job, but Rude Awakening probably wouldn't be as much fun if it were.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Tribune
Rude Awakening
Two hippies came back from 1969 to get the bad news. Nobody wants to save the world anymore. They just want to buy it.
1989 · 1h 38m · R
Comedy
Directed by
Joel Segal
,
Cherylanne Martin
,
Aaron Russo
,
David Greenwalt
Overview
In the later 1960s, two hippies are forced to leave their friends as they are wanted by the FBI, who sees them as criminals. They hide in the jungle for 20 years, secluded from the outside world. In the later 1980s, the find out that a secret war is about to start in the US, and decide to return to New York to tell someone about it.
Director and cast
- Joel Segal Director
- Cherylanne Martin Director
- Aaron Russo Director
- David Greenwalt Director
- Cheech Marin as Hesus
- Eric Roberts as Fred
- Julie Hagerty as Petra
- Robert Carradine as Sammy
- Louise Lasser as Ronnie Summers
- Buck Henry as Lloyd Stool
- Andrea Martin Cast
- Cindy Williams Cast
- Cliff DeYoung Cast
- Dion Anderson Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
19%
Tomatometer
Fresh
The movie is very uneven, but it does manage to do a couple of crucial things that those tributes haven't. It shows us the zany heart of '60s counterculture, and it reminds us that the zaniness was a form of political expression.
Jay Boyar, Orlando Sentinel
Rotten
It's hard to be against a movie that's against war. Which is the most enthusiastic thing you can say about Rude Awakening, a witty concept that never quite materializes into a movie.
Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer
Rotten
Rude Awakening is utterly without merit, and its "give-peace-a-chance" message during the final credits is lame to the point of being offensive.
Gene Siskel, Chicago Tribune
Fresh
A sincere, somewhat nuanced, relatively uncliched, and actually judicious look at both the 60s and 80s and what they mean in relation to each other.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
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