The ’60s

Year: 1999

Runtime: 172 mins

Language: English

Director: Mark Piznarski

Drama

Chicago’s working‑class Herlihys watch their three children take very different paths: Brian enlists in the Marines after high school and serves in Vietnam; Michael becomes involved in the civil‑rights movement, campaigns for Bobby Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy, then turns to radical politics; Katie gets pregnant, moves to San Francisco and joins a hippie commune. In the Deep South, the Black Taylor family is shattered when minister and civil‑rights organizer Willie Taylor is killed; his son Emmet moves north, joins the Black Panthers and becomes a bodyguard for Fred Hampton.

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