Losing It at the Movies

X-rated flicks? OK, the kids stay home. The other night, however, the neighbs showed a double-feature rated GP, so off we trooped: a friend and her children, ten-year-old Chuck and Carol, the twins, all gooey-palmed and eager for popcorn, fifteen-year-old Regina with a case of the giggles, and us old folks welcoming a few hours of diversion. The lead film was Oink’s Revolting, starring Peter Fonda as Smooth Glide, the old dope peddler, Mark Frechette as his disciple Mark Oink, a pacifist incendiary who specializes in plastics, Elliott Gould as S*Q*U*I*S*H, the freak-out Jesuit, and James Simon Kunen in his first screen smash as Grape, theorist of the Movement, plus Shelley Winters as Sanguinary Sister, the hypothyroidic groupie.

Revolting documents the valiant efforts of a gaggle of ultra-cool young revolutionaries to sabotage fascist General Guts Zappem’s attempt to induct a reluctant CO, Sidney Swellguy (Jon Voight), into the Luftwaffe of an unnamed country identified only by its street signs and beer labels, which are in Anglo-Saxon. Carol commented afterward: “I’ll be darned if I’ve got it straight, but it sure was groovy.” Regina said it resembled a lecture by her eighthgrade social studies teacher.

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X-rated flicks? OK, the kids stay home. The other night, however, the neighbs showed a double-feature rated GP, so off we trooped: a friend and her children, ten-year-old Chuck and Carol, the twins, all gooey-palmed and eager for popcorn, fifteen-year-old Regina with a case of the giggles, and us old folks welcoming a few hours of diversion. The lead film was Oink’s Revolting, starring Peter Fonda as Smooth Glide, the old dope peddler, Mark Frechette as his disciple Mark Oink, a pacifist incendiary who specializes in plastics, Elliott Gould as S*Q*U*I*S*H, the freak-out Jesuit, and James Simon Kunen in his first screen smash as Grape, theorist of the Movement, plus Shelley Winters as Sanguinary Sister, the hypothyroidic groupie.

Revolting documents the valiant efforts of a gaggle of ultra-cool young revolutionaries to sabotage fascist General Guts Zappem’s attempt to induct a reluctant CO, Sidney Swellguy (Jon Voight), into the Luftwaffe of an unnamed country identified only by its street signs and beer labels, which are in Anglo-Saxon. Carol commented afterward: “I’ll be darned if I’ve got it straight, but it sure was groovy.” Regina said it resembled a lecture by her eighthgrade social studies teacher.