Actuakers One of my all time favorites.

PodBill Just what I expected

ShangLuda Admirable film.

Francene Odetta It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

Emil Bakkum The film I love you Alice B. Toklas gives an excellent portrayal of the counter culture movement in the last years of the 60s, notably in the west coast of the USA. This is a fine place to live, if you happen to be an orange. The movement tried to take a holistic view on mankind, in order to enter a New Age. The ideology incorporates science and humanist psychology, but also for instance eastern mysticism. The aim is total harmony. You invite your analyst for Christmas dinner. The people must be self-conscious but abandon egocentrism. Although the hippie movement was a figurehead of the New Age, the mainstream consisted of bored middle-class individuals, who sought a meaning in life. In the film this latter group is represented in a striking way by the 35-year old lawyer Harold. He is successful in his profession, and is socially embedded in his Jewish community. Good lawyers can let a case drag on for years. Harold has a protracted relationship with his secretary, but clearly her passion is one-sided. Finally he agrees to marry on labor day! But then Harold meets the 20-year old hippie Nancy. She bakes brownies for him, with hashish and carrots, and he loves it. He is high and can see for miles. It makes him run away on his wedding day, because he wants to discover who he really is. On the beach he takes lessons in mysticism from an Indian guru. The film music changes into Indian Zither pieces. Harold lives with Nancy in his car and in his repainted luxury apartment. His T-shirt is offensive in 19 states. He even tries to convert two passing police officers. But naturally Nancy gets bored, and brings other hippies into the house. it is fun with a few more people. The place is transformed into a commune, and this is not the relation that Harold had imagined. Nancy calls him unhip, and Harold insists that he is groovy. This terminates his short hippie career. The last minutes of the film are somewhat confusing. Again the secretary arranges a marriage, and again Harold runs off. She exclaims: "I knew it!", and he shouts: "There must be something beautiful out there!" Obviously the narrative ridicules the New Age ideas, but still the scenes give a stirring picture of its atmosphere. The viewer can engage in shamefaced nostalgia. And whereas the New Age movement is long gone, which indeed makes the setting outdated, the search for the personal identity remains a theme of eternal value.

st-shot Harold Fine (Peter Sellers) is a successful button downed LA accident attorney living life by the numbers with a modicum of passion. Preparing listlessly to marry he runs across flower child Nancy (Leigh-Taylor Young)who offers him an alternative view as well as some mind altering weed brownies that in combination cause him to go Leary and drop out. Hooking up with Nancy they live in his car for awhile before getting a crash pad complete with hanger ons. While Harold is really tuned into Nancy he's turned off by the chaotic leisure and presence of the dead beats. Caught between two worlds, conflicted about where he belongs Harold seesaws with modern day existence.Alice falls somewhere between Reefer Madness and Up in Smoke with its comic exploration of the notorious herb. While it is free of the bug eyed crazies that populated Reefer its just as dishonest with the response by its cast of characters (freaks and straights of all ages) who manage to peak two bites in then go on an oh wow laughing jag for half a day. Made within a year of The Summer of Love and a year before Woodstock it is more a burlesque attempt for mass consumption that would later be more fully informed by the gravitas of Cheech and Chong. Quaint and broad as it may be it does re-classify pot however from the insane drug of Dragnet and Reefer Madness with the comic attitude taken towards Prohibition in silent and early sound films. Sellers rolls well with the fatuous script and Taylor-Young fills the hippie chic bill with ease but Jo Van Fleet as Harold's mother overacts outrageously along with a bit of feigned stoning by the rest of the cast that beats this labored idea into the ground in no time..

bear1955 There was box office in capitalizing on, and for some, touting, the growing California counterculture in this other films. Not a bad trip yet was likely on their radar. The 'Hollywood' not involved in the mess of "Skidoo" or the heady "Head" made around the same time, went for a a trip presented as a more accessible and intimate story and got themselves a more 'important' actor in Peter Sellers for '...Toklas'.This is a must-see anyway; well-crafted and I like the bit of a look at period Los Angeles. The smugness and progressive's way of dissing the "square" middle-class using the movie amongst others to give them the finger makes it difficult to enjoy the parts they intend as humor. I enjoy Sellers so much more another 1968 film "The Party" an affectionate, goof, warm-satirical look at their own fabu crowd up in the 'hills'.

Igor Visotskiy It's my favorite film and i more happy because screenplay was written by my favorite movie writer Paul Mazursky. It was his first screenplay for full-length movie after many works for serials. Also he was an Actor .... Hippie on Sidewalk (uncredited), executive producer, Soundtrack (lyrics: "I Love You, Alice B. Toklas!" (1968) (uncredited)) Was wondered that Mazursky was born in my country - Ukraine) First what i feel after this movie it's freedom. I saw it 20 or more times and it's still seems fresh. I advise you to see this movie first time alone. After this movie i told myself i'll never marry) My favourite character - Herbie - sincere dude, which open mind and soul of his stupid stereotype brother. Nancy are my love for rest of my life. Thanks Director for opening Leigh Taylor-Young' talent. I saw her later in Soylent Green (1973) movie of Harry Harrison. And for final must say that soundtrack for I Love You, Alice B. Toklas! one of the best psychedelic score i ever heard. Enjoy and be yourself! Good luck! Om