The Trip (1967)
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38% of critics liked it
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54% of users liked it
(2,683 ratings)
Roger Corman directed this psychedelic odyssey concerning the curative properties of LSD, with a surrealistic screenplay written by Jack Nicholson. Peter Fonda is Paul Groves, a television commercial director whose estranged wife Sally (Susan Strasberg) is pressuring him to sign their divorce… More Roger Corman directed this psychedelic odyssey concerning the curative properties of LSD, with a surrealistic screenplay written by Jack Nicholson. Peter Fonda is Paul Groves, a television commercial director whose estranged wife Sally (Susan Strasberg) is pressuring him to sign their divorce papers. Feeling strain in both his professional and his personal life, Paul talks to a guru named John (Bruce Dern), who suggests that an acid trip will cure what ails him. Paul goes to John's pad and his trip begins -- at first calm and sedate, but when Sally and a sexy blonde hippie enter his hallucinations, it's every man for himself. Paul experiences crazed sexual couplings, paranoiac visions, and even gets to attend his own funeral. After imagining he's seeing John's head bashed in, he runs from the apartment in terror and takes to the streets. He is finally rescued and brought to a beach house, where he completes his trip while making love to a beautiful woman. After the trip subsides, Paul is convinced he has been reborn and is prepared to face the new day. ~ Paul Brenner, Rovi
- Directed By
- Roger Corman
- Written By
- Jack Nicholson
- Genres
- Action & Adventure, Classics, Drama, Science Fiction & Fantasy
- In Theaters
- Jan 1, 1967 Limited
Critic Reviews
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Bosley Crowther, New York Times
In trying to visualize a notion of what Peter Fonda goes through on an LSD trip, Roger Corman has simply resorted to a long succession of familiar cinematic images, accompanied by weird music and sounds.
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Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Roger Corman and Peter Fonda, trying to do for LSD what they did for motorcycles in The Wild Angels. It doesn't take
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Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com
Curio item: a cultural artifact that reflects the zeitgeist but shallow and disappointing as LSD feature
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Jeffrey M. Anderson, Combustible Celluloid
Although this style of filmmaking has been aped millions of times over on MTV and television commercials, it's still a pretty radical idea.
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Steve Crum, Video-Reviewmaster.com
A psychedelic splash by Roger Corman noted only for its leads Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper.
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Cast
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Peter Fonda
as Paul Groves
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Susan Strasberg
as Sally Groves
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Bruce Dern
as John guru
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Dennis Hopper
as Max
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Salli Sachse
as Glenn
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Katherine Walsh
as Lulu
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Barboura Morris
as Flo
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Caren Bernsen
as Alexandra
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Luana Anders
as Waitress
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Tom Signorelli
as Al
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Mitzi Hoag
as Wife
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Barbara Renson
as Helena
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Dick Miller
as Cash
- Angelo Rossitto
- Michael Blodgett
- Peter Bogdanovich
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Judith Lang
as Nadine
- Mike Nader
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Susan Walters
as Go-Go Dancer
- Ben Vereen
- Cindy Williams
- Elaine Giftos
- Talia Shire
- Judy Lang