HEAD (1968)

 

Directed by: Bob Rafelson

Starring: The Monkees (Davy Jones, Peter Tork, Micky Dolenz, Michael Nesmith), Victor Mature, Teri Garr, Carol Doda, Annette Funicello, Frank Zappa, Sonny Liston, Timothy Carey, Percy Helton, Ray Nitschke, Toni Basil, Logan Ramsey, Abraham Sofaer, Vito Scotti, Charles Macaulay, T.C. Jones, Charles Irving, William Bagdad, June Fairchild, I.J. Jefferson, Lee Kolima, Terry Chambers, Mike Burns, Esther Shepard, Kristine Helstoski, John Hoffman, Linda Weaver, Jim Hanley, Dennis Hopper, Bob Rafelson, Jack Nicholson

86 minutes

(NR - adult language, adult themes, adult situations)

PLOT:

Running in from seemingly nowhere, Micky Dolenz, Davy Jones, Michael Nesmith & Peter Tork - better known collectively as The Monkees - disrupt a bridge opening ceremony. From where and why did they come to disrupt the proceedings? They were filming a series of vignettes in several different genres, including a wild west sequence, a desert war sequence, a Confederate war sequence, and a science fiction sequence. They disagree with much of what is happening around them and try to figure out how to escape the oppression they feel - symbolized by a big black box in which they are seemingly imprisoned - by the forces around. That oppression is often shown in the form of "The Big Victor Mature".

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