The People Next Door (1970) (1 Viewer)

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Any love for this title? Scorpion Releasing announced a Blu for this in late December through Kino Lobor but no street date yet. This is a trippy generation gap story about the evils of the youth drug culture. What separates this from Go Ask Alice and a slew of other films on the subject made at this time is the cast. Eli Wallach and Julie Harris are the parents and Hal Holbrook and Cloris Leachman are the neighbors next door. Deborah Winters (remember her from Kotch and Class of 44) plays the LSD tripping daughter. I saw this on TV in the 70’s and owned a VHS. It’s campy but worth a look for how seriously it treats its subject matter. Even the late great Cloris has a brief nude scene in this.