Turn on to Love is a 1969

1969 in film

The year 1969 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* Last year for prize giving at the Venice Film Festival until it is revived in 1980...

 film directed by John G. Avildsen

John G. Avildsen

John Guilbert Avildsen is an American film director.-Life and career:Avildsen was born in Oak Park, Illinois, the son of Ivy and Clarence John Avildsen...

 and marks his directorial debut.

Plot

A bored housewife starts spending time in liberal Greenwich Village

Greenwich Village

Greenwich Village, , , , .in New York often simply called "the Village", is a largely residential neighborhood on the west side of Lower Manhattan in New York City. A large majority of the district is home to upper middle class families...

, where she gets involved with pot-smoking hippies and an Italian filmmaker.

Principal cast

Actor	Role
Sharon Kent	Janice
Richard Michaels	Gerard
Luigi Mastroianni	Rico
Jackie Riley	Randy
Frank Rogers	Roach
Elizabeth Tarrington	Betty
Steven Wingate	Henry

Critical response

Roger Greenspun of The New York Times

The New York Times

The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...

found the film average but liked the fact that it is not preachy when it comes to its subjects, and had harsh words for the lead actress:

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