Greetings

R

1968

1 hr. 28 min.

Comedy

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88%

17 Reviews

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41%

1,000+ Ratings

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A draft dodger (Jonathan Warden), a filmmaker (Robert De Niro) and a Kennedy-assassination theorist (Gerrit Graham) do their things in New York.

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delysid d

a horrible, brain-ache inducing experience

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

02/21/19

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Silly but with reason. Very funny.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/19/23

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Unfunny and boring. Has aged about as well as left-out milk.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

02/19/23

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Took a lot of patience to sit through this. Watching all the movies in Danny Peary's book, 100 Cult Movies, in case Suspect Video closes shop when the Honest Ed's neighbourhood changes. Weird bleeps, inter titles -between vignettes, no plot -, breaking the 4th wall, cuts to LBJ speech footage. Peary: A) This was made super cheaply and De Palma's always sloppy. Likewise, he says with De Palma, the guys are obnoxious jerks and the women are dumb, and really just there to have sex with. B) They're Godardian/Brechtian "alienation" devices to remind you it's a film I'll buy that, especially in combo with his idea that the 3 characters end up on the wrong end of aggressive 'cinematic' tools (in porn, on news from Viet Nam, and -metaphorically- by being assassinated by a lone gunman). Peary really goes to town on the references in this to other filmmakers. He figures it's made for filmmakers and students, and also for disenfranchised, alienated young folks of the time, and it's amazing that it got distributed at all.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

02/27/23

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It's hard to know what to make of this early film from Brian De Palma - it's sort of a cross between those Godard films where everyone just delivers monologues to the camera and those Warhol films where non-actors sit around and talk about or engage in trashy behaviour. And it's a comedy or filmed in a comic vein that is pretty easy-going and never really boring. Three guys try to get out of going to Vietnam by flunking their draft physical, debate the Warren Commission results, engage in computer dates, and create films that peeping toms might love. But mostly they just talk. Some of their monologues are dirty and some are funny. You feel like you are with a bunch of goof-offs who are pretty good at enjoying themselves. One of the guys happens to be Robert De Niro (in his first film). Allen Garfield has a good bit as a smut peddler. But, yeah, De Palma seems to have been a pervert from the start. Godard and Warhol may have had more to say.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

02/04/23

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Brian DePalma's comedy starts off with the hillarious draft dodging sequence of scams but it is all down hill from there. The only other highlights are a decent performance from a young De niro and the JFK conspiracy stuff, which was quiet brave considering that he was assassinated just five years previously.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

01/20/23

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Jonathan Warden

Paul Shaw

Robert De Niro

Jon Rubin

Gerrit Graham

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Richard Hamilton

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Empire Magazine

Messy, but lively and surprisingly funny.

Rated: 3/5

Mar 7, 2011

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Eric Henderson

Slant Magazine

Greetings, and salutations to a career destined to be pockmarked by provocation.

Rated: 3/4

Aug 22, 2006

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Derek Adams

Time Out

Silly and substantial.

Jun 24, 2006

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Harvey G. Cox

Tempo (National Council of Churches)

Though it falls noticeably short of technical perfection, Greetings is fun to see. More than that. It is poignant, sad, hilarious and, at points, even moving.

Jan 6, 2021

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Paul Schrader

Los Angeles Free Press

The funniest and most contemporary American comedy since Dr. Strangelove... DePalma blends the comic styles of Godard and The Committee.

Jan 23, 2020

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Ethan Vestby

The Film Stage

With the mission statement of setting out to make something akin to Jean-Luc Godard's '60s work, De Palma's third feature, Greetings, still feels surprisingly his own.

Jul 20, 2016

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Synopsis

A draft dodger (Jonathan Warden), a filmmaker (Robert De Niro) and a Kennedy-assassination theorist (Gerrit Graham) do their things in New York.

Director: Brian De Palma
Production Co: West End Films
Rating: R
Genre: Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Mar 24, 2016