Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me (1971)

After a sojourn in Mexico, undergrad Gnossos Pappadopoulis comes back to his college where, at the close of the 1950s, he partakes in the staples of the burgeoning counterculture movement: drugs, casual sex and radical politics. After Gnossos thumbs his nose at everything from the campus fraternities to the ideas espoused by his professors, he decides to leave school and head for Cuba with a friend. There, he once again struggles with the excesses of his hippie lifestyle. Director: Jeffrey Young. Writers: Richard Farina (novel), Robert Schlitt (screenplay). Stars: Barry Primus, David Downing, Susan Tyrrell, Philip Shafer, Bruce Davison, Zack Norman, Raul Julia. Cinematographer: Urs Furrer. Composer: Garry Sherman.