Unable to deal with her parents, Jeannie Tyne runs away from home. Larry and Lynn Tyne search for her, and in the process meet other people whose children ran away. With their children gone, the parents are now free to rediscover/enjoy life.
Direction
Forman's documentary-style chaos in fictional form
Writing
Parents who become the real lost children
Acting
Buck Henry's magnificent deadpan desperation
Director
Miloš Forman
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Forman cast actual runaway teenagers for the audition scenes, filming their real stories without scripts. Some of their parents recognized them in theaters.
This was Forman's first American film after The Firemen's Ball, and his last before One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest made him a household name. It bombed so hard he almost didn't get another shot.
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