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The ’60s (1999) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1999 · 172 mins · English
- Directed by
- Mark Piznarski
- Starring
- Jordana Brewster, David Alan Grier, Julia Stiles, Michael Harney, Josh Hamilton, Elisabeth Röhm
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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