Getting Straight

Getting Straight
Getting Straight
	Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Richard Rush
Screenplay by	Robert Kaufman
Based on	Getting Straight; 1967 novel; by Ken Kolb
Produced by	Richard Rush
Starring	Elliott Gould; Candice Bergen
Cinematography	László Kovács
Edited by	Maury Winetrobe
Music by	Ronald Stein
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release date	May 13, 1970 (U.S.);
Running time	124 mins
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$13,300,000

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).

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

[mojo-1] "Box Office Information for Getting Straight". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved April 17, 2016.

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