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Movie Info

After 20 years in a jungle commune, two hippies (Cheech Marin, Eric Roberts) return to New York and find their friends are now yuppies.

Rating:

R
Genre:

comedy
Original Language:

English
Director:

Aaron Russo, David Greenwalt
Producer:

Aaron Russo
Box Office (Gross USA):

$2.4M
Runtime:

1h 40m
Sound Mix:

Surround

Cast & Crew

Cheech Marin
Jesus Montea

Eric Roberts
Fred Wook

Julie Hagerty
Petra Black

Robert Carradine
Sammy Margolin

Buck Henry
Lloyd Stool

Louise Lasser
Ronnie Summers

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Critic Reviews for Rude Awakening

All Critics (21) | Top Critics (10) | Fresh (4) | Rotten (17)

It's far from being a professional job, but Rude Awakening probably wouldn't be as much fun if it were.

July 11, 2014 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…

Dave Kehr
Chicago Tribune
The movie is very uneven, but it does manage to do a couple of crucial things that those tributes haven't. It shows us the zany heart of '60s counterculture, and it reminds us that the zaniness was a form of political expression.

July 11, 2014 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Jay Boyar
Orlando Sentinel
With ideals higher than it's leading men, this film can only fall short, failing to back up its flimsy philosophising.

July 11, 2014 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…

Rob Beattie
Empire Magazine
It's hard to be against a movie that's against war. Which is the most enthusiastic thing you can say about Rude Awakening, a witty concept that never quite materializes into a movie.

July 11, 2014 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…

Carrie Rickey
Philadelphia Inquirer
Rude Awakening is utterly without merit, and its "give-peace-a-chance" message during the final credits is lame to the point of being offensive.

July 11, 2014 | Rating: 0.5/4 | Full Review…

Gene Siskel
Chicago Tribune
A sincere, somewhat nuanced, relatively uncliched, and actually judicious look at both the 60s and 80s and what they mean in relation to each other.

January 14, 2011 | Full Review…

Jonathan Rosenbaum
Chicago Reader
Rude Awakening is a shallow yuppie vs. hippie satire blended with one of those old Cheech and Chong reefer flicks.

July 11, 2014 | Rating: 1.5/4 | Full Review…

Gary Thompson
Philadelphia Daily News
Released smack-dab in the middle of so-called Woodstock Week, the comedy Rude Awakening is an often well-intentioned, yet mostly misguided comedic flashback into the drug culture of the 1960s.

July 11, 2014 | Rating: 1.5/4 | Full Review…

Roger Hurlburt
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Nice idea, but this is silly rather than comical, and the jokes are hammered home far too hard.

July 11, 2014 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…

Jo Berry
Radio Times
A promising premise -- 60s hippies confronting 80s yuppies -- goes badly awry in this comedy from directors Aaron Russo and Robert Greenwalt.

January 14, 2011 | Rating: 1/4 | Full Review…

TV Guide
The result is a movie with only a few amusing gags -- all emanating from Marin's spaced-out character -- while the rest of the film is at best bland and at worst obnoxious.

May 9, 2006 | Rating: 1.5/4 | Full Review…

Chris Hicks
Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
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October 5, 2005 | Rating: 1/5

Chuck O'Leary
Fantastica Daily

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Audience Reviews for Rude Awakening

Jul 16, 2008

Hilarious! A personal favorite.

Leo L Super Reviewer
Jan 27, 2008

I liked the idea and the film started of really good, but then it just became slow and boring towards the end.

The M Super Reviewer