Getting Straight

Getting Straight is a 1970 American satirical and romantic <a href="/facts/Comedy_drama/bNHltlNB">comedy-drama</a> motion picture directed by <a href="/facts/Richard_Rush_(director)/b7Hm4hWx">Richard Rush</a>, released by <a href="/facts/Columbia_Pictures/J35aASat">Columbia Pictures</a>.
The story centers upon student politics, protest, and relationships during the height of the <a href="/facts/Counterculture_of_the_1960s/BjyVc83W">counterculture</a> era at a US university amid the turbulent times around the late 1960s, seen through the eyes of non-conformist graduate student Harry Bailey (<a href="/facts/Elliott_Gould/wkbBpC03">Elliott Gould</a>). Also featured in the cast were <a href="/facts/Candice_Bergen/1MY1djFp">Candice Bergen</a> as Bailey's girlfriend, <a href="/facts/Jeff_Corey/fV11gcsj">Jeff Corey</a> as Bailey's professor, <a href="/facts/Robert_F._Lyons_(actor)/6HnMlz8o">Robert F. Lyons</a> as his draft-avoiding friend Nick, and <a href="/facts/Harrison_Ford/Dw7TrhAK">Harrison Ford</a> 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 <a href="/facts/Medium_Cool/5sUIfvmM">Medium Cool</a> (1969), <a href="/facts/R._P._M./o0hXzs9X">R. P. M.</a> (1970), and <a href="/facts/The_Strawberry_Statement_(film)/ukpvusk2">The Strawberry Statement</a> (1970).

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Getting Straight