Berkeley the Movie Trailer
"Berkeley" Director's Cut Trailer Uncensored
BERKELEY
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- Release Date: 2007
- Runtime: N/A
- Genre: Drama
- Starring: Nick Roth, Laura Jordan, Henry Winkler, Sarah Carter ... see all
- Director: Bobby Roth
- Plot: Berkeley is the story of Ben Sweet (Nick Roth), an eighteen year old boy who comes to UC Berkeley in 1968 to study accounting and avoid the draft. There begins... Read more
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| Feb 24, 2008Daily Californian
Anyway, long story short, we ended up sitting (uncomfortably, mind you) through the entirety of one of the finest perpetuations of the "Berkeley stereotype" to ever kind of hit the big screen.
Unfortunately, we're not entirely sure whether the director viewed "Berkeley" in the same way his "intended audience" did: with a grain of-OK, with a salt shaker.
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| Oct 12, 2007Comingsoon.net
Ben arrives on the charged Berkeley campus nave about the politics of the world.
Nowhere is this political movement as alive and well as on college campuses across the United States and no college campus embodies the political movement and spirit of the counter-culture as at Berkeley.
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Reel.com
Also good news is the lead performance by Nick Roth (the director's son and alter ego) as Ben Sweet, a clean-cut kid who enters Berkeley in 1968 with hopes of earning an accounting degree and a job after graduation in his father's floor covering business, only to become a rock 'n' roll playing, long-haired, free-loving, anti-war protester. ... Full Review
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