Getting Straight

Getting Straight
Theatrical release poster
Directed byRichard Rush
Screenplay byRobert Kaufman
Based onGetting Straight
1967 novel
by Ken Kolb
Produced byRichard Rush
StarringElliott Gould
Candice Bergen
CinematographyLászló Kovács
Edited byMaury Winetrobe
Music byRonald Stein
Distributed byColumbia Pictures
Release date
  • May 13, 1970 (1970-05-13) (U.S.)
Running time
124 mins
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$13,300,000[1]

Getting Straight is a 1970 American comedy film motion picture directed by Richard Rush, released by Columbia Pictures.

The story centered upon student politics at a university in the early 1970s, seen through the eyes of non-conformist graduate student Harry Bailey (Elliott Gould). Also featured in the cast were Candice Bergen as Bailey's girlfriend, Jeff Corey as Bailey's professor, Robert F. Lyons as his draft-avoiding friend Nick, and Harrison Ford as a fellow teaching student and his girlfriend's neighbor.

Getting Straight was released during an era of change and unrest in the United States in the late 1960s and early '70s, and was in a long line of films that dealt with these themes. Other films of this period with similar themes were Medium Cool (1969), R. P. M. (1970), and The Strawberry Statement (1970).

  1. ^ "Box Office Information for Getting Straight". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved April 17, 2016.

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