Zabriskie Point (1970)

R03/26/1970Drama1h 53m
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How you get there depends on where you're at.

Overview

Anthropology student Daria, who's helping a property developer build a village in the Los Angeles desert, and dropout Mark, who's wanted by the authorities for allegedly killing a policeman during a student riot, accidentally encounter each other in Death Valley and soon begin an unrestrained romance.

Top Billed Cast

  1. Cast 1

    Mark Frechette

    Mark

  2. Cast 1

    Daria Halprin

    Daria

  3. Cast 1

    Paul Fix

    Cafe Owner

  4. Cast 1

    G. D. Spradlin

    Lee's Associate

  5. Bill Garaway

    Morty

  6. Cast 1

    Kathleen Cleaver

    Kathleen

  7. Cast 1

    Rod Taylor

    Lee Allen

  8. Martin Abrahams

    Radical Student (uncredited)

  9. Michael L. Davis

    Police Lieutenant on Loudspeaker (uncredited)

In the 1960s, the director Michaelangelo Antonioni left his native Italy for a series of a films abroad. BLOW-UP, shot in 1966, captured Swinging London at the dawn of the Sixties counterculture when radical new fashion and music served as the nexus of youth innovation. But as Antonioni moved to the United States and began shooting ZABRISKIE POINT, ultimately released in February 1970, he now captured a counterculture that was tougher and politically radical, with Black liberation movements and university students advocating in-your-face or downright violent methods for effecting social change...

Status Released

Original LanguageEnglish 

Budget$7,000,000.00

Revenue $1,000,000.00

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