Redwarmin This movie is the proof that the world is becoming a sick and dumb place

Sexyloutak Absolutely the worst movie.

pointyfilippa The movie runs out of plot and jokes well before the end of a two-hour running time, long for a light comedy.

Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

moonspinner55 Ordinary 15-year-old teenage girl, feeling like an outcast at a new high school, falls in with the stoner crowd after being offered hallucinogens at a party. Eventually, she's a runaway living on the streets and, after returning home to her well-meaning but naïve parents, is stuck with a bad reputation among her peers--and labeled a 'fink' when she turns in a fellow teen druggie. TV-made "message movie", adapted from the fictional cult book by Anonymous (Beatrice Sparks), purports to pack a punch, but instead seems tentative and a bit awkward (this mostly due to the inexperienced younger actors in the cast). William Shatner (as Alice's natty father) and Andy Griffith (as a priest who works with dopers and drunks) seem to be cast for their name value, although both do solid work in small roles. Jamie Smith Jackson handles the lead with sensitivity and sincerity, and the picture gets a solid B for effort.

Michael Donovan James Tiberius Kirk always has been and always shall be the One True Captain of the United Star Ship Enterprise. Andrew Taylor always has been and always shall be the One True Sheriff of Mayberry, North Carolina.It doesn't matter if they die, or haven't been born yet, or if the actors who play them die, or get recast. It doesn't even matter if they are fictional characters on fictional TV shows. Andy Taylor was Sheriff of Mayberry before "The Andy Griffith Show" was created, and will be after "The Andy Griffith Show" is forgotten. James Kirk was Captain of the Enterprise before "Star Trek was created, and will be after "Star Trek" and all its spinoffs and movie spinoffs are forgotten.

mythicallyenchanting When this film first came out I watched it and it scared the crap out of me. There are a few movies in my life that had a real impact on me and this was one of them. I hadn't seen it since then but recently watched it again and thought I didn't understand really why although saying that when I hear the music that was played during it sang by Grace Slick I still get that sinking, sad, depressed feeling that it originally gave me. Is the quality great compared to today's movies? No, I can't say it is and I've seen better telling of this type of story. Is the acting the best? No, again seen better? Is the storyline based on half-truths? Yes it is. Did it do it's job to scare the crap out of me when I was a youngster. Heck yes and I think was a big influence in the fact that now at 48 years old, almost 49, I never touched a drug in my life. So it may not have been the best acting, most truthfully storyline, the best quality but I think in it's way it saved many of us from ever even thinking about starting down the path of drugs.

lynda_h I was 13 when this film came out. I was in catholic school and the movie was shown one afternoon in religion class. Very powerful and very scary. Unfortunately it didn't scare me enough. Although I was an A-B student, I experimented with drugs in high school and over the years and wound up a full blown addict by the time I was 39. Today I am over 6 years clean. While watching a documentary on illegal drugs on the History Channel, I thought about this movie and how it should be shown in schools across America, even though it came out in 1973. Hollywood and television producers in this country should not be afraid to tackle this topic on a deeper level...drug addiction is alive and well in America and we need to prepare our children with profound and factual information even if it scares them to death. Drug addiction, as with other addictions, can be arrested if caught in time. The sad thing is that, if we continue to turn a blind eye to our borders, to our communities, to our schools and to our children, we'll continue to cultivate generations of addicts and will have no one to blame but ourselves. "Button, button...who's got the button?!" ...It's up to US to decide!