The People Next Door Movie Review 1970

Seventies attempt at exposing the drug problems of suburban youth. Typical middle-class parents Wallach and Harris are horrified to discover that daughter Winters is strung out on LSD. They fight to expose the neighborhood pusher while struggling to understand their now-alien daughter. Based on J.P. Miller's television play.

Distribution

Available on VHS
Running time 93 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Strained Suburbia, Teen Angst, Adapted from Television

Screenplay

J(ames) P(inckney) Miller

Cast

Deborah Winters, Eli Wallach, Julie Harris, Stephen McHattie, Hal Holbrook, Cloris Leachman, Nehemiah Persoff

Director

David Greene

Producer

Avco Embassy