The Strawberry Statement

Director: Stuart Hagmann Stuart Hagmann

Overview

The anti-Establishment protests that lead to the violent confrontation between demonstrators and police at Columbia University during the late '60s provides the basis of this earnest, socially conscious drama. The soundtrack featuring such artists as Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, and Buffy St. Marie provides a highlight.

Product Details

Release Date:	04/12/2012
UPC:	0883316289716
Original Release:	1970
Rating:	R
Source:	Warner Archives
Region Code:	A
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Mono]
Language:	English
Time:	3:32:00
Sales rank:	30,504

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Bruce Davison	Simon
Kim Darby	Linda
Bud Cort	Elliot - Coxswain
Murray MacLeod	George
Tom Foral	Coach
Danny Goldman	Charlie
Kristina Holland	Irma
Bob Balaban	Elliot
Kristin Van Buren	Filing Room Girl
Israel Horovitz	Dr. Benton
James Simon Kunen	Chairman
James Coco	Grocer
Eddra Gale	Dean's Secretary
Michael Margotta	Swatch
Bob Benjamin	Man
Jeannie Berlin	Clipboard Girl
Carol Bagdasarian	Telephone Girl
Jon Hill	Student
Jess Walton	Student
Andrew Parks	Student
Booker Bradshaw	Lucas
Drew Eshelman	Tim
Greta Pope	Song Leader
David Dukes	Guard
Ed Greenberg	Bearded Leader
Kertia Thomas	Student Speaker
Debbie Muller	Student Speaker
Bruce Neckels	Student Speaker
Larry Canaga	Guerilla Theater Troupe
Justin Christopher	Guerilla Theater Troupe
Diann Henrichsen	Guerilla Theater Troupe
Robin Menken	Guerilla Theater Troupe
Christopher Pray	Guerilla Theater Troupe,Guerilla Theater Troupe
Paul Willson	Guerilla Theater Troupe
Henry Leff	Police Inspector
Bert Remsen	Policeman
Joe Quinn	Professor
Pat May	Red Mountain Jug Band
Bill Boelk	Red Mountain Jug Band
Randy Thornally	Red Mountain Jug Band
Pat Rooney	Red Mountain Jug Band
Jack Schmidt	University President
King Moody	Television Newscaster
Bill Striglos	Television Technician
Joseph Reale	Jock
Nancy Burnett	Woman
Margo Winkler	Woman
Ruth Silveira	Woman
Julie Payne	Woman

Technical Credits

Robert Chartoff	Producer
Joe Day	Special Effects
Stuart Hagmann	Director
Irwin Winkler	Producer

Editorial Reviews

The Strawberry Statement is a well-intentioned mess of a movie. As drama, it's pretty hopeless, featuring a trite screenplay rife with stereotypes posing as characters and a plot that casts motivation and reality to the wind in favor of "big" moments that are supposed to be full of meaning but ring totally hollow. Stuart Hagmann's direction is haphazard, rarely intent on anything more than getting from one sequence to the next, and not always succeeding terribly well at that. Yet there is a strange appeal about Strawberry, largely because it does do a decent job of capturing part of what made the 1960s such a strange and fascinating decade. While its heart is certainly with the student "radicals," it does manage to convey the fact that the reasons some of these youths were involved in the "movement" had less to do with political convictions than with wanting to belong to the new thing or wanting to get laid. Strawberry also boasts a great soundtrack, mostly by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, and a compelling and -- given the material with which he had to work -- surprisingly complex performance from Bruce Davison. This helps matters tremendously, but ultimately Strawberry is more interesting as a cultural artifact than as a film.