Rude Awakening

Rude Awakening

Two hippies came back from 1969 to get the bad news. Nobody wants to save the world anymore. They just want to buy it.

198998 min4.7 / 10

A comedic fish-out-of-water story about two idealistic 1960s fugitives returning to a cynical 1980s America, blending satire of cultural change with buddy-comedy warmth.

In the later 1960s, two hippies are forced to leave their friends as they are wanted by the FBI, who sees them as criminals. They hide in the jungle for 20 years, secluded from the outside world. In the later 1980s, the find out that a secret war is about to start in the US, and decide to return to New York to tell someone about it.

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