Review – 1969

This cliché-ridden stinker plays like a version of small town America in the late 1960s written by an especially talentless high school student. Robert Downey Jr. and Kiefer Southerland star as draft-avoiding college buddies making their ways through just about every imaginable trite situation the “hippie days” could supply. We get the uptight parents, the older brother in the Marines, the younger sister caught up in the idealism of the age. We get the freaky-painted van, the war protest, the bad acid trip, and so on and so forth. What we don’t get are any original characters, situations, or even a good line of dialogue (though we do get some bad enough to merit Golden Turkey awards). See if desperate