'68 (film)

1988 film by Steven Kovacs January 2025 October 2021 '68 68film.jpg DVD cover Steven Kovacs Dale DjerassiIsabel Maxwell Steven Kovacs Eric LarsonRobert Locke Shony Alex BraunJohn Cipollina Daniel Lacambre Cari Coughlin New World Pictures 1988 05 06 98 minutes United States English '68 is a 1988 drama film directed by Steven Kovacs. The film follows a full year of a Hungarian family living in San Francisco in 1968. Plot The father escaped the Soviet Invasion of Budapest and now runs a Hungarian restaurant that is not doing well financially. The younger of his two sons is gay and struggling with coming out. His dad disowns him when he finally does. The older son is involved in the counterculture, gets kicked out of college, buys a motorcycle, starts dating a Maoist, and is also disowned by his father. The older of the sons runs afoul of an outlaw motorcycle club; the younger of the two sons gets drafted but is rejected because of his homosexuality. The older one joins his younger brother in a gay rights protest. Major events of the year such as the assassination of Martin Luther King and the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy are interspersed throughout the plot and depicted in the film using stock footage.https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094587 '68 film IMDB 26 February 1988 March 2, 2021 Cast Eric Larson as Peter Szabo Robert Locke as Sandy Szabo Sándor Técsy as Zoltan Szabo Anna Dukasz as Zsuzsa Szabo Miran Kwun as Alana Chan Terra Vandergaw as Vera Kardos Shony Alex Braun as Tibor Kardos Donna Pecora as Piroska Kardos Elizabeth De Charay as Gizi Horvath Jan Nemec as Dezso Horvath Rusdi Lane as Bela Csontos Nike Doukas as Beatrice Neil Young as Westy Frank X. Mur as Officer Joel Parker as Protester Paul Pedrol as Client James Russel Release and reception '68 was first shown at the AFI Los Angeles International Film Festival during March 11–26, 1987.AFI Fest Los Angeles The Los Angeles Times 1987-02-20 VI-11 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/87927293/68/ Newspapers.comToday's Schedule at AFI The Los Angeles Times 1987-03-21 VI-6 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/87925973/afi/ Newspapers.com Ben Kallen praised Neil Young's cameo performance in the LA Weekly's collection of reviews, but found the film clichéd.Ben Kallen '68 LA Weekly 1987-03-26 69 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/87926546/68/ Newspapers.com The film was then regionally released on May 6, 1988. The film was also shown at the Deauville Film Festival in September 1988 in which Steven Kovacs was nominated for the Critics' Award.TCM Database Reviewers found the movie to be nostalgic but lacking in substance. Michael Sragow of The San Francisco Examiner found the screenplay "over-stuffed" and "strident."Michael Sragow Michael Sragow ' '68' is all nostalgia, no substance The San Francisco Examiner 1988-02-26 D-11 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/87921204/ Newspapers.com Michael H. Price at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram praised the film's historical accuracy and camera work, but found the film tortured.Michael H. Price Life wasn't that hectic during the real '68 Fort Worth Star-Telegram 1988-05-27 4:7 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/87923611/film/ Newspapers.com Time Out says "Kovacs' episodic attempt to evoke the trippy, dippy and momentous days of '68... finally peters out in a bathetic happy resolution of sorts."https://www.timeout.com/movies/68 '68 Film Time Out March 2, 2021 References External links Category:1988 drama films Category:1988 LGBTQ-related films Category:1988 films Category:American drama films Category:American gay-related films Category:1988 English-language films Category:Hungarian drama films Category:Hungarian gay-related films Category:1980s LGBTQ-related drama films Category:Films set in 1968 Category:1988 American films Category:English-language drama films Category:Gay-related drama films