Taking Off is a 1971 American comedy film, directed by Miloš Forman. [1] It tells a story of an average couple in the suburbs of New York City, who, when their teenage daughter runs away from home, connect with other parents of vanished children and learn something of youth culture.

Taking Off: Directed by Milos Forman. With Lynn Carlin, Buck Henry, Georgia Engel, Tony Harvey. While searching for their runaway teenage daughter, the parents rediscover the pleasures of life as they get acquainted with a self-help group for parents of vanished children.

Synonyms for TAKING OFF: departing, exiting, moving, running along, going, getting off, pulling out, taking a walk; Antonyms of TAKING OFF: coming, showing up, arriving, remaining, turning up, staying, settling, abiding

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“Taking Off” is set in the United States in the late 1960s. Young Jeannie runs away from home to New York City with the hopes of becoming a singer. In New York City she meets a community of hippies and bohemians. Meanwhile Jeannie’s suburban parents search for their missing daughter.

With their children gone, the parents are now free to rediscover/enjoy life. While a hypnotherapist helps Larry Tyne control his urge to smoke, Larry's fifteen-year-old daughter Jeannie, who has run away from her suburban Connecticut home, joins an audition in Manhattan for girl singers.

Taking Off (1971) In Czechoslovakian film-maker Milos Forman's first American film - an insightful, charming, witty and comedic satirizing of the adult middle-class, with extremely creative editing; it examined the supposed generation gap from the parents' perspective - and was inspired by the Beatles' song "She's Leaving Home":

Bourgeois parents tries to find why their quiet teenage girl ran away from home. It's a story about the gap of generation, between the straight parents and the hippies children. Forman present a funny and tender look at the youth of America of the early seventies.

2017年7月10日 · There’s a sequence mid-point in Miloŝ Forman’s 1971 social-satiric odyssey Taking Off when Lynn and Larry Tyne (played by Lynn Carlin and Buck Henry) drive to upstate New York from Riverdale to find their daughter Jeannie, who’s been missing nearly a week.

Czech filmmaker Milos Forman's first American production stars Linnea Heacock as Jeannie Tyne, a runaway teenager. While she wanders aimlessly around New York, her suburban parents, Lynn (Lynn Carlin) and Larry (Buck Henry), desperately search for their missing daughter.