Glen and Randa is a 1971 rated X post-apocalypse movie directed by Jim McBride

Jim McBride

Jim McBride is an American television and film director, film producer and screenwriter.-Filmography:* David Holzman's Diary * My Girlfriend's Wedding...

. It was co-written by McBride, Lorenzo Mans and Rudy Wurlitzer

Rudy Wurlitzer

Rudolph "Rudy" Wurlitzer is an American novelist and screenwriter. He is known for his experimental style and has a large cult following for both his novels and screenplays. His fiction includes Nog, Flats, Quake, Slow Fade, and Drop Edge of Yonder...

. McBride made the film for $480,000 with an obscure cast including Steven Curry, Shelley Plimpton

Shelley Plimpton

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, Woodrow Chambliss and Gary Goodrow.

Synopsis

Decades after a nuclear war has devastated the earth and left the survivors as scavengers, a young couple named Glen and Randa who come from a close knit tribe in a rural area, set out to discover the remains of the world that came before them. They know nothing of the outside world, except that Glen has read about and seen pictures of a great city in some old comic books and he and Randa set out to find this city.

Reception

The movie received generally favorable reviews. Time Magazine rated the movie one of the top 10 of 1971 and stated, “'Glen and Randa' is one of the best and most original American films of the year". Time magazine also wrote, "there is no disputing his distinctive cinematic flair or the definitive excellence of his relatively unknown actors". The New York Times stated, "'Glen and Randa' is neither a successful nor an entertaining movie, but it is sober, and what mind it has is high. Thus I'm completely mystified by the X rating that has been attached to it, apparently because of its nudity and love-making. They might be thought obscene only by stretching a censor's imagination."