Taking Off

Taking Off (1971)

  • 100% of critics liked it
    (9 reviews)

  • 83% of users liked it
    (569 ratings)

Czech filmmaker Milos Forman's first American production stars Linnea Heacock as Jeannie Tyne, a runaway teenager. While she wanders aimlessly around New York, her suburban parents, Lynn (Lynn Carlin) and Larry (Buck Henry), desperately search for their "missing" daughter. Larry and… More

R,
Directed By
Written By
Jean-Claude Carriere, Milos Forman
Genres
Comedy
In Theaters
May 17, 1971 Wide
Universal Pictures

Critic Reviews

  • Vincent Canby, New York Times

    Mr. Forman's specialty is tender farce played out in what are, essentially, very bleak circumstances.

  • Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader

    An engaging, episodic, wonderfully fair-minded satire about runaway children and anxious adults.

  • David Fear, Time Out New York

    Forman's career pivot point between Prague's film-school halls and the Oscars podium is still a prime example of the way a foreign director can apply an outsider's perspective to something like Nixon's Amerikkka and draw blood.

  • Vadim Rizov, Village Voice

    It remains his [Milos Forman's] best film in and about America.

  • Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com

    Czech director Milos Forman applies subtle European sensibility to his American directing debut, a bittersweet satire of family mores and manners in times of change.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Stella D


    really funny time capsule of the 70's. can be seen here http://megavideo.com/?v=62MLXWUG

  • Tim S


    This is a little gem from Forman's early days. I enjoyed it, although it gets a little long at times. It's good to see Lynn Carlin, too.

  • Tom S


    A lot of really fun scenes, but never amounts to much more than that.

  • cody f


    Very original and could only be made in the 70's.It has a Maysles Brothers feel mixed with Formans everyman charaters. I thought the story was a little weak and not sure if it would get better with repeted viewing.

  • Grifty G


    Great "lost" film by Milos Forman. This was his first American film but it still had the feel of his Czech New Wave films. Very funny movie.

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