Phonearl Good start, but then it gets ruined

Console best movie i've ever seen.

Freaktana A Major Disappointment

Kimball Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

bkoganbing It took 11 years for Robert Rimmer's novel written in 1962 to get to the big screen. In that time America had undergone a cultural sea change in its values. So a novel written in the beatnik years is updated to the middle 70s where it certainly would have been less shocking than the experimental college of Harrad headed by James Whitmore and Tippi Hedren had been brought to the screen in 1962 when the omnipresent Code was still in place.This college promotes coed rooming and in this carefully selected group of students Don Johnson and Laurie Walters are paired as are Bruno Kirby and Victoria Thompson. It's the story of these four students that is the basis of the plot.I won't go into it, but it is Johnson who challenges the mores of society far more than Whitmore and Hedren ever expected. The movie made quite an impact when it came out, but by today's standards seems like really tame stuff. It's also quite a display of 70s fashions as well for kids and adults. Viewers will still find it enjoyable.

MARIO GAUCI This was more or less the KINSEY (2004) of its day, though clearly quaint in comparison; still, it is a measure of the times that the film caused a mild stir back then whereas KINSEY virtually made no ripples when it emerged! Anyway, HARRAD is mildly interesting (if perhaps too low-key to stay in the memory for long) in delineating the forward-thinking/experimentation that occurred in sexual relationships at the end of the 1960s. Incidentally, I rented the film as part of a small tribute to its recently-deceased star James Whitmore: of course, the middle-aged actor does not get in on the action (even if it is never particularly explicit); Tippi Hedren, then, appears as his still-attractive spouse/collaborator – who even catches the eye of the campus hunk (Don Johnson, interestingly the long-time partner of Hedren's real-life daughter Melanie Griffith!). The rest of the cast is filled with fresh faces (including future comedian Bruno Kirby[!]…but especially notable is lovely and initially shy heroine Laurie Walters who, in her turn, is pursued by leering Robert Middleton at a nearby café). Unsurprisingly, partners get swapped (whether intended or not) which invariably cause heartbreaks, but there is also some cheap humor at the expense of a bespectacled and plump student. While director Post was more at home in action-oriented fare, he handles the delicate subject matter with directness and reasonable perception; besides, the film looks good, sports a typical 1970s pop score (one of the songs being performed by Johnson himself) and, for what it is worth, was even followed a year later by a sequel, HARRAD SUMMER.

preppy-3 I caught this on cable years ago. It was the full uncut version--I hear some of the DVD versions are edited.Something about a bunch of students (among them a very young Don Johnson) going to college and experimenting with sex, sexuality and male/female sex roles. What was probably fascinating in the 1970s is laughably dated today. The "insights" are obvious, the characters are bland, the dialogue is priceless ("zoom") and the 70s hair and fashions are scary. Also the casual sex going on in this is unsettling in this day and age. It's not a good movie but I kept watching--it's so silly that it's kind of fun.The only thing that made this bearable are the nude scenes. There is plenty of casual male and female nudity--more than you would see in any modern film. Don Johnson is nude quite a bit and there is full frontal of him--but back then he had long hair and wasn't exactly in the best of shape.So if you want a few good laughs and some nudity (in the uncut version) tune in. But this is really not a good movie. I give it a 3.

Scoopy I got ripped off on this video. I bought an edition and it is a 90 minute version which has been radically cropped and censored, to the point where there is no nudity and the scenes often lose continuity.Note: even the full 97 minute version is not worth watching, except to see nude and non-nude appearances from people who later became much more successful, like Don Johnson, Gregory Harrison, Bruno Kirby, Laurie Walters, Melanie Griffith.It is a silly movie about college students in an avant-garde program that "encourages" students to have sexual relations with each other, in order to acquire important life skills and a better understanding of the type of long-term partner they will eventually require.I think that back in the early 70's we thought that this film had merit because we agreed with its iconoclastic view of society's rules for male-female relationships. Today the expression of that iconoclasm seems naive and simplistic, the film moves at a snail's pace, and the casual coupling encouraged by the university seems downright dangerous in today's more hazardous sexual climate.And it's just plain boring.