The 60s (1999)

Movie
Audience Score
60
The 60s
PG13 2 hr 52 minFeb 7th, 1999Drama, TV Movie
The Herlihys are a working class family from Chicago whose three children take wildly divergent paths Brian joins the Marines right out of High School and goes to Vietnam Michael becomes involved in the civil rights movement and after campaigning for Bobby Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy becomes involved in radical politics and Katie gets pregnant moves to San Francisco and joins a hippie commune Meanwhile the Taylors are an AfricanAmerican family living in the deep South When Willie Taylor a minister and civil rights organizer is shot to death his son Emmet moves to the city and eventually joins the Black Panthers serving as a bodyguard for Fred Hampton
DirectorMark Piznarski
WritersBill CouturiéRobert Greenfield

Movie Details

Original Language:English
Executive Producers:Lynda Obst
Production Companies:NBC Studios Lynda Obst Productions