
Wealthy twenty-two year old Max Frost - born Max Jacob Flatow, Jr. - is a rock music superstar, he a rock music franchise unto himself. He has cut ties with his parents, especially due to the control wielded by his overbearing mother, Daphne Flatow, that control against which he rebelled and is still rebelling in the form of having an entourage solely of young people, who he believes knows better than people even a few years older than them. Age-wise, the senior member of his... (Full plot summary below)
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Wealthy twenty-two year old Max Frost - born Max Jacob Flatow, Jr. - is a rock music superstar, he a rock music franchise unto himself. He has cut ties with his parents, especially due to the control wielded by his overbearing mother, Daphne Flatow, that control against which he rebelled and is still rebelling in the form of having an entourage solely of young people, who he believes knows better than people even a few years older than them. Age-wise, the senior member of his entourage is his acid-dropping girlfriend, former child star Sally LeRoy, age twenty-four, the junior member being fifteen year old Yale law graduate Billy Cage, his business advisor and his band's guitarist. Max decides to endorse thirty-seven year old Congressman Johnny Fergus, running on the Democratic ticket for a California senate seat, as one of Johnny's platform policies is to lower the voting age to eighteen. Johnny happily accepts that endorsement because of Max's power over young people, whose votes Johnny is trying to court. But as Max sees that Johnny doesn't go far enough in his policies - Max believing the voting age should be fourteen so someone like Billy can vote - Max figures the best way to get what he wants is to start his own political machine, first within the current regulations of the land, then once "in", working from the inside to change the laws to transfer the power from the "old" - who he and his team see as anyone over thirty-four - to the young. The questions become how far Max and his team will go to ensure his vision of the world comes to fruition, and how far the establishment will go to try and stop him and his followers.
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| Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenIt's a dark, dark comment on 1968 youth culture, not always elegant to watch but unusual for its time. |
| Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)Ken HankeIf it's taken as satire, it's passable. If it's taken seriously, forget it. |
| New York TimesRenata AdlerWild in the Streets is a kind of instant classic, a revved-up La Chinoise or Privilege for the drive-ins in summertime. |
| Creative LoafingMatt BrunsonEven acknowledging it as a sign of the times, it comes off as awfully obvious in its satiric implications, making easy points while limping its way toward a daft denouement. |
| Time OutTom MilneDespite its rough edges and airy trimmings, the film has a chilling nub of possibility to it. |
| Radio TimesJohn GammonWhen this modish satire of teenage rebellion was released at the fag-end of the 1960s, it must have seemed a lot more cutting than it does now. |
| Chicago ReaderDave KehrShelley Winters, as George's mother, gives the most tasteless performance of her career, while Barry Shear directs as if he'd seen Dr. Strangelove a few too many times. |
| User ReviewHerbert RA psychedelic satire that is a lot of fun. Not to be taken seriously, just groove to its absurdity. |
| User Reviewdelysid dI thought this movie was pretty hilarious. the music was awful. my favorite part is where they force all old people into camps where they wear purple robes and are force fed LSD |
| User ReviewBradley WFor this audience, Wild in the Streets needs no serious political comment and no real understanding of how pop music and the mass media work together. It's a silly film, but it does communicate in the simplest, most direct terms. |