The '70s |  | Director: Peter Werner
Actors: Brad Rowe, Guy Torry, Vinessa Shaw, Amy Smart, Kathryn Harrold
Studio: Lions Gate
Category: DVD
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Rating:  14 reviews
Sales Rank: 53742
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Closed-captioned
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 170 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 5
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: D7383D
ISBN: 1573629197
UPC: 031398738329
EAN: 9781573629195
ASIN: B00004TJH0
Theatrical Release Date: April 30, 2000
Release Date: July 25, 2000
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Product Description
70S THE: THE COMPLETE MINISERIES (DVD MOVIE)
Amazon.com
In 170 minutes, this NBC-produced miniseries hoped to capture a decade--and in many ways, it did. The '70s traces the lives of four friends from their senior year at Kent State (marked by the killing of four student protestors by the National Guard) through the era of Watergate and Tang. At its worst, it's a so-so soap opera held together by fascinating bits of historical trivia, giving equal time to the issues of the era (the Equal Rights Amendment, the oil crisis) and inescapable bits of pop culture (Mary Tyler Moore and the hustle). The characters are pretty obviously engineered to plumb every angle of the decade's cultural topography: the young black National Guardmember who deserts to Los Angeles in time to join the Black Panthers and open a cinema featuring hits like Shaft and Cleopatra Jones, the sorority girl turned disco queen turned California cultist, the young intellectual woman who finds feminism and abandons marriage in favor of a career, and the conservative law student turned Watergate burglar turned pipeline worker turned environmentalist. The acting's not bad and the story hangs together, but the show is really at its best when the soundtrack takes over, allowing montages of memorable photos and archival film clips to reveal (and revel in) the real history behind the melodrama. --Grant Balfour
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 14
 Jumbled and inaccurate drivel October 8, 2009
John Miller (North Carolina, USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Quite dreadful - it is really worth no stars. I'm watching it now though why I don't know. The music is good but completely wrong chronologically. The actors don't look at all like they are in the 70's. Only the large lapels suggest the 70's rather than the obvious late 90's/early 2000's. Just look at the real 70's footage and compare against the contrived scripted nonsense. I was born in the 60's and so the 70's were very formative - only the news footage bears any resemblence to reality. If you were not alive in the 70's then please don't take this movie to be remotely accurate. Then again, it's probably quite in line with modern news coverage.
 Disco Ducko June 14, 2008
T. sieg (Steelerburg Pa)
There was no more turbulent era, except for the late 60s, than the free wheeling, drug drenched disco 70's. The decade started with the Kent State incident, and the Lt. Calley Mai Lai Massacre and ended with Jimmy Carter's reign of mismanaged government.
The 70's mini series is fun to watch if you lived through the era, as I did. The dialogue is straight out of SNL and the wardrobes reminded me of my mis-spent youth.
However, it does not, no fictionized series could, capture the the heart and heartbreak of those times. Although I am a veteran, I protested the war in its later years, because I believed that it was wrong and because it was "the social thing to do." Fueled by drugs rock music and a sense of being lost in a futile future, the early to mid 70's was a tough time to think responsiblity. However there was an overiding galvanizing effect for youth groups, pro-establishment or anti-establishment, and a polarizing effect against the status quo.
By the late 70's Disco music and Saturday Night Fever became the mantra, the search for love and peace a distant memory.
This mini series is worth watching because it tries to cover the 70's by focusing on a group of friends and wathching the transitions occur as the social events unfold around them. They became the conduits for the events.
The acting is okay, given the hokey plot lines and dialogue. The thrill to this series is reliving an era that started with the we generation and ended with the me generation. You had to have been there.
Loved it! October 16, 2007
FlyGuyMovieBuff (Travis AFB, CA, USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I found this movie along with another titled The '60's in a bargin bin at a swap meet. I paid 2 dollars for both. I enjoyed them so much I would have paid full price. I wondered if there was a third movie titled The '80's but Studio 54 was as close as I could find. Being born too late to remember the 60's, The '70's actually did spark memories for me, specifically cult fanatics and all the runaway teens who joined them. Vinessa Shaw is an absolute doll, I've had the hots for her since Hocus Pocus. She really needs to be a lead character hero a la Lara Croft.... Rent all 3, The 60's, The 70's and Studio 54 and spend a weekend revisiting 3 decades of excessive excess.
Not quite as good as the precursor March 25, 2005
Anyechka (Rensselaer, NY United States)
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
One shouldn't expect too much from what was a made-for-tv miniseries, with no real big names, but altogether it was a very good involving story. It followed the course of the decade from start to finish very nicely, encorporating in music and actual footage of the historic events together with the respective storylines of the four main characters. Still, it just doesn't seem quite as gripping and involving as the prior movie 'The '60s,' where there seemed to be more character development instead of, like this movie, seeming to focus a bit more on a lot of historic happenings and making as many of them a part of their lives as possible, instead of just choosing ones that would have naturally fit with whom the characters were. The plot seems to suffer a little because of this. There also seemed like there were more gaps of time than in 'The '60s,' with a few years passing between events a couple of times without letting the viewer know what year it was now supposed to be or how much time had passed.
 What a MOVIE!!! July 16, 2003
A Person from Earth (Italy)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
What an amazingly well done and well acted and well thought off movie...
All I can say is that if anyone had to try to make a better movie for the same historical period, I have a hard time believing it could be better made...
Congratulations to all who have parteciapated to the making of the movie.
Every actor was great. Superb acting from Amy Smart.
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