DOG KNOW WHEN YOU'RE AFRAID
PRICE: Negotiable
GENRE: Coming-of-Age/Drama
LOGLINE: It’s 1972 and 18-year old Eddy - still coming to grips with the death of his older brother in Vietnam - tries to keep his head and his band together as the future closes in on him and his stoner friends.
SYNOPSIS: Eighteen-year old Eddy Dolan and his friends have come of age in the early 1970s, a time when free love, drugs and rock music came to the American suburbs. Now it’s the end of the summer after high school and Eddy and his friends are about to go their separate ways, but not before some last adventures, encounters, experimentations and hard lessons in life.Eddy, an aspiring musician who also writes poetry, and his drummer pal Sly are bandmates, busy partying their way through these final days of summer - smoking pot, drinking, listening to music, dancing and chasing “chicks.” Partying and playing music help Eddy, a popular former high school football player turned hippie, cope with the death in Vietnam of his older brother Danny, whom he idolized. After letting his grades slip and forgoing sports, Eddy is expected to attend the local community college. Sly suggests he and Eddy should join the Navy and see some of the wider world. Sly is convinced the war in Vietnam is drawing to a close. An African American, he sees opportunity in joining up now because recruiters are hungry for volunteers. Eddy wants Sly to get more serious about their music, but Sly doesn’t see a future in it. Both feel trapped by their circumstances, wondering what the future holds.It’s a strange time in America. The Vietnam War is winding down, but young men Eddy’s age still face the draft. The idealism of the sixties has faded but the energy crisis angst of the seventies and disco fever have not yet dawned. Meanwhile, the drug-induced revelry is taking its toll on Eddy and his peers, with drug busts and deaths.Eddy holds down a job in a shoe store, drives an old Volkswagen Bug and lives at home with his parents, a younger brother and precocious little sister. His parents, still shattered by the death of his older brother, worry about Eddy’s future while he chafes under their overbearing scrutiny.
Eddy has long been infatuated with his jock friend Mike’s cheerleader girlfriend, Celia, and there is a long-standing rivalry between the two boys. Eddy finds some solace in a brief relationship with the free-spirited Kathy, who plans to leave town soon for a new life at a commune out west. High School classmate Mary, injured in an auto accident and confined to a wheelchair, also has lost a sibling to a violent death, a car accident. She asks Eddy to accompany her to a demonstration, which turns into a melee. When Mary shows she wants to be more than friends with Eddy, he doesn’t know how to react, at first, but the attraction is there and they quickly become lovers.The cast of characters also includes Chester, a brilliant student about to leave for the Ivy League, with whom Eddy has a hallucinogenic trip to the mountains. There is David, who wants to get Eddy into meditation instead of drugs. Mr. Trevor is Eddy’s middle-aged boss at the shoe store. Mr. Fisher is Eddy’s gay English teacher who makes an appearance at the shoe store. Mr. Cooper is the alcoholic father of Eddy’s stoner friend “Bandana Bob” who is slow to make like a jackrabbit when the cops arrive.The summer finally comes to a head at an ill-fated going away party for Mike, who drops acid and spikes Eddy’s beer as well. Stoned out of his mind, Mike is injured in a fiery auto wreck. Eddy, who has left Mary behind at the party to search for Mike with Celia, is arrested at the crash scene but instead of going to jail is taken home when one of the cops, a Vietnam Vet, recognizes him as Danny’s younger brother.Eddy’s untenable home life comes to a climax in a dramatic confrontation with his father that results in an acrimonious departure. Eddy splits for California, hoping to find himself, leaving Mary behind - for now. He busks for cash, meditates under the redwoods and manages to visit the military base where his brother was stationed before shipping out for Vietnam. On his own now and adrift, Eddy is no longer a housebound teenager, but a young man paying his dues in the wider world beyond his hometown. With only a few coins in his pocket, Eddy spends Christmas eve in a California diner, drinking a bottomless cup of coffee, writing a poem about his brother and still thinking about home and Mary and about Sly, who has finally joined up after a judge told him he could volunteer or have a police record for a petty offense. The waitress provides him with a free slice of pie. On the TV, jet fighters take off from a Navy carrier heading for North Vietnam. The screen shows their targets evaporating in giant fireballs. The war isn’t over yet.
PRICE: Negotiable
GENRE: Coming-of-Age/Drama
LOGLINE: It’s 1972 and 18-year old Eddy - still coming to grips with the death of his older brother in Vietnam - tries to keep his head and his band together as the future closes in on him and his stoner friends.
SYNOPSIS: Eighteen-year old Eddy Dolan and his friends have come of age in the early 1970s, a time when free love, drugs and rock music came to the American suburbs. Now it’s the end of the summer after high school and Eddy and his friends are about to go their separate ways, but not before some last adventures, encounters, experimentations and hard lessons in life.Eddy, an aspiring musician who also writes poetry, and his drummer pal Sly are bandmates, busy partying their way through these final days of summer - smoking pot, drinking, listening to music, dancing and chasing “chicks.” Partying and playing music help Eddy, a popular former high school football player turned hippie, cope with the death in Vietnam of his older brother Danny, whom he idolized. After letting his grades slip and forgoing sports, Eddy is expected to attend the local community college. Sly suggests he and Eddy should join the Navy and see some of the wider world. Sly is convinced the war in Vietnam is drawing to a close. An African American, he sees opportunity in joining up now because recruiters are hungry for volunteers. Eddy wants Sly to get more serious about their music, but Sly doesn’t see a future in it. Both feel trapped by their circumstances, wondering what the future holds.It’s a strange time in America. The Vietnam War is winding down, but young men Eddy’s age still face the draft. The idealism of the sixties has faded but the energy crisis angst of the seventies and disco fever have not yet dawned. Meanwhile, the drug-induced revelry is taking its toll on Eddy and his peers, with drug busts and deaths.Eddy holds down a job in a shoe store, drives an old Volkswagen Bug and lives at home with his parents, a younger brother and precocious little sister. His parents, still shattered by the death of his older brother, worry about Eddy’s future while he chafes under their overbearing scrutiny.
Eddy has long been infatuated with his jock friend Mike’s cheerleader girlfriend, Celia, and there is a long-standing rivalry between the two boys. Eddy finds some solace in a brief relationship with the free-spirited Kathy, who plans to leave town soon for a new life at a commune out west. High School classmate Mary, injured in an auto accident and confined to a wheelchair, also has lost a sibling to a violent death, a car accident. She asks Eddy to accompany her to a demonstration, which turns into a melee. When Mary shows she wants to be more than friends with Eddy, he doesn’t know how to react, at first, but the attraction is there and they quickly become lovers.The cast of characters also includes Chester, a brilliant student about to leave for the Ivy League, with whom Eddy has a hallucinogenic trip to the mountains. There is David, who wants to get Eddy into meditation instead of drugs. Mr. Trevor is Eddy’s middle-aged boss at the shoe store. Mr. Fisher is Eddy’s gay English teacher who makes an appearance at the shoe store. Mr. Cooper is the alcoholic father of Eddy’s stoner friend “Bandana Bob” who is slow to make like a jackrabbit when the cops arrive.The summer finally comes to a head at an ill-fated going away party for Mike, who drops acid and spikes Eddy’s beer as well. Stoned out of his mind, Mike is injured in a fiery auto wreck. Eddy, who has left Mary behind at the party to search for Mike with Celia, is arrested at the crash scene but instead of going to jail is taken home when one of the cops, a Vietnam Vet, recognizes him as Danny’s younger brother.Eddy’s untenable home life comes to a climax in a dramatic confrontation with his father that results in an acrimonious departure. Eddy splits for California, hoping to find himself, leaving Mary behind - for now. He busks for cash, meditates under the redwoods and manages to visit the military base where his brother was stationed before shipping out for Vietnam. On his own now and adrift, Eddy is no longer a housebound teenager, but a young man paying his dues in the wider world beyond his hometown. With only a few coins in his pocket, Eddy spends Christmas eve in a California diner, drinking a bottomless cup of coffee, writing a poem about his brother and still thinking about home and Mary and about Sly, who has finally joined up after a judge told him he could volunteer or have a police record for a petty offense. The waitress provides him with a free slice of pie. On the TV, jet fighters take off from a Navy carrier heading for North Vietnam. The screen shows their targets evaporating in giant fireballs. The war isn’t over yet.
PRICE: Negotiable
GENRE: Coming-of-Age/Drama
LOGLINE: It’s 1972 and 18-year old Eddy - still coming to grips with the death of his older brother in Vietnam - tries to keep his head and his band together as the future closes in on him and his stoner friends.
SYNOPSIS: Eighteen-year old Eddy Dolan and his friends have come of age in the early 1970s, a time when free love, drugs and rock music came to the American suburbs. Now it’s the end of the summer after high school and Eddy and his friends are about to go their separate ways, but not before some last adventures, encounters, experimentations and hard lessons in life.Eddy, an aspiring musician who also writes poetry, and his drummer pal Sly are bandmates, busy partying their way through these final days of summer - smoking pot, drinking, listening to music, dancing and chasing “chicks.” Partying and playing music help Eddy, a popular former high school football player turned hippie, cope with the death in Vietnam of his older brother Danny, whom he idolized. After letting his grades slip and forgoing sports, Eddy is expected to attend the local community college. Sly suggests he and Eddy should join the Navy and see some of the wider world. Sly is convinced the war in Vietnam is drawing to a close. An African American, he sees opportunity in joining up now because recruiters are hungry for volunteers. Eddy wants Sly to get more serious about their music, but Sly doesn’t see a future in it. Both feel trapped by their circumstances, wondering what the future holds.It’s a strange time in America. The Vietnam War is winding down, but young men Eddy’s age still face the draft. The idealism of the sixties has faded but the energy crisis angst of the seventies and disco fever have not yet dawned. Meanwhile, the drug-induced revelry is taking its toll on Eddy and his peers, with drug busts and deaths.Eddy holds down a job in a shoe store, drives an old Volkswagen Bug and lives at home with his parents, a younger brother and precocious little sister. His parents, still shattered by the death of his older brother, worry about Eddy’s future while he chafes under their overbearing scrutiny.
Eddy has long been infatuated with his jock friend Mike’s cheerleader girlfriend, Celia, and there is a long-standing rivalry between the two boys. Eddy finds some solace in a brief relationship with the free-spirited Kathy, who plans to leave town soon for a new life at a commune out west. High School classmate Mary, injured in an auto accident and confined to a wheelchair, also has lost a sibling to a violent death, a car accident. She asks Eddy to accompany her to a demonstration, which turns into a melee. When Mary shows she wants to be more than friends with Eddy, he doesn’t know how to react, at first, but the attraction is there and they quickly become lovers.The cast of characters also includes Chester, a brilliant student about to leave for the Ivy League, with whom Eddy has a hallucinogenic trip to the mountains. There is David, who wants to get Eddy into meditation instead of drugs. Mr. Trevor is Eddy’s middle-aged boss at the shoe store. Mr. Fisher is Eddy’s gay English teacher who makes an appearance at the shoe store. Mr. Cooper is the alcoholic father of Eddy’s stoner friend “Bandana Bob” who is slow to make like a jackrabbit when the cops arrive.The summer finally comes to a head at an ill-fated going away party for Mike, who drops acid and spikes Eddy’s beer as well. Stoned out of his mind, Mike is injured in a fiery auto wreck. Eddy, who has left Mary behind at the party to search for Mike with Celia, is arrested at the crash scene but instead of going to jail is taken home when one of the cops, a Vietnam Vet, recognizes him as Danny’s younger brother.Eddy’s untenable home life comes to a climax in a dramatic confrontation with his father that results in an acrimonious departure. Eddy splits for California, hoping to find himself, leaving Mary behind - for now. He busks for cash, meditates under the redwoods and manages to visit the military base where his brother was stationed before shipping out for Vietnam. On his own now and adrift, Eddy is no longer a housebound teenager, but a young man paying his dues in the wider world beyond his hometown. With only a few coins in his pocket, Eddy spends Christmas eve in a California diner, drinking a bottomless cup of coffee, writing a poem about his brother and still thinking about home and Mary and about Sly, who has finally joined up after a judge told him he could volunteer or have a police record for a petty offense. The waitress provides him with a free slice of pie. On the TV, jet fighters take off from a Navy carrier heading for North Vietnam. The screen shows their targets evaporating in giant fireballs. The war isn’t over yet.
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