- Release Date: 1968
- Runtime: 101 min
- Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller, Music
- Starring: Susan Strasberg, Dean Stockwell, Jack Nicholson, Bruce Dern ... see all
- Director: Richard Rush
- Plot: Jennie (Susan Strasberg), a deaf runaway who has just arrived in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district to find her long-lost brother, a mysterious bearded sculptor known around town as The Seeker... Read more
User Reviews
Bad Trip Dude.
Aug 18, 2005
sol1218 - imdb.com
Aug 18, 2005sol1218 - imdb.com
(Minor Spoilers) Trveling to the Haight-Ashbury section of San Francisco to find her hippie brother Steve, Bruce Dern, pretty but hard of hearing Jenny Davis, Susan Strasberg, get's hooked up with a number of local hippie musicians and an high hippie... Full review
Pleasures on Haight St. with Nicholson as Stoney
Jul 02, 2004
shepardjessica - imdb.com
Jul 02, 2004shepardjessica - imdb.com
This cool, little movie (directed by Richard Rush of Stunt Man fame) stars Susan Strasberg (good actress; daughter of Lee); she hung out with all these cool nobodies (then) as a deaf chick on Haight_Ashbury streets looking for her older... Full review
I'M PSYCHED ON PSYCH-OUT!
Oct 14, 2003
definitedoll - imdb.com
Oct 14, 2003definitedoll - imdb.com
I purchased this movie recently as one of those "MIDNITE MOVIES", that MGM has put out as a double feature on DVD. I absolutely love this movie. If you want to know what 1968 looked like, really looked like in... Full review
The Seeds cameo was too short
Sep 19, 2003
ethylester - imdb.com
Sep 19, 2003ethylester - imdb.com
Most everything people have already said about this movie is how I think about it, too. However, I would like to say for the Seeds fans out there that might try to see the film so they can see the... Full review
A lot of blissed-out fun
Jun 20, 2003
reluctantpopstar - imdb.com
Jun 20, 2003reluctantpopstar - imdb.com
As I was about two years old when this movie was shot, I missed the whole psychedelic/hippie/Sixties era/attitude/thing, except maybe the very tail end of it. So I was always curious about it. While I realize this is just a... Full review
Welcome to the world of peace and love, produced by Dick Clark!
Dec 29, 2002
Filmjack3 - imdb.com
Dec 29, 2002Filmjack3 - imdb.com
Psych-Out is as much a skewed look at the world of hippies as much as it is a praise-full one- Clark knew that he couldn't show hippies as they really were, despite that he could get filming rights in Haight-Ashbury... Full review
Stupid, but VERY colorful and never dull
Dec 02, 2002
Wayne Malin - imdb.com
Dec 02, 2002Wayne Malin - imdb.com
A 17 year old deaf mute (Susan Stasberg!?!) tries to find her brother (Bruce Dern) in 1968 San Franciscos Haight-Ashbury area. A musician (Jack Nicholson) and his friends try to help her.The plot is unbelievable from the word "go" and,... Full review
Classic psychedelic trash!
Jan 03, 2002
Infofreak - imdb.com
Jan 03, 2002Infofreak - imdb.com
If you try and take 'Psych-Out' seriously you're making a big mistake. This is Haight-Ashbury presented by Dick Clark after all! But as 60s camp it's great fun, and dare I say it worth watching more than "real" head movies... Full review
Holy S**t
Nov 26, 2000
- imdb.com
Nov 26, 2000- imdb.com
When I first read the synopsis for Psych-Out, I expected it to be incredibly stupid, but once I watched it I decided otherwise. This film provides a rare look into a time too offen reduced to nostalgic simplicities. A true... Full review
Wickedly good fun from the era of Flower Power
Nov 21, 1999
Jason C. Atwood - imdb.com
Nov 21, 1999Jason C. Atwood - imdb.com
It's a rock band - hippie gang trying to protect a deaf runaway girl while on the search for her missing brother, but instead, they're taking The Trip to nowhere. Director Rush, who gave pony-tailed Nicholson some star treatment in... Full review
Critics Reviews
| Mar 14, 2007Badmovies.org B-Movie Reviews
"A website to the detriment of good film" ... Full Review
| Apr 15, 2003PopMatters
The sharp dialogue suggests that Nicholson has "been there....Few movies represent the cultural upheaval of the 1960s more bluntly than Psych-Out and The Trip ..... ... Full Review
Entertainment Weekly
Scour better stores for the 1968 cult film Psych-Out, now scandalously out of print (it was formerly available on HBO; Video Oyster, 212-989-3300, might help you locate a copy).
As a deaf girl (Susan Strasberg) searches the Haight for her deranged brother (Bruce Dern), she crashes with a sly guitarist played by Jack Nicholson.
... Full Review
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