Hippie Hippie Shake
Release Date: 2008 - Wide Release
Distributor: Universal Pictures
Film Genre: Dramedy
Country: United States
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Written by Lee Hall and based on "Hippie Hippie Shake: The Dreams, the Trips, the Trials, the Love-ins, the Screw Ups: The Sixties," a memoir by Richard Neville. The film will use a famous obscenity trial involving the Australian satirical magazine Oz as a metaphor for a journey through the swinging '60s in London. The mag was transplanted to London, where Neville and his cohorts became the defendants in the longest obscenity trial in English legal historyafter a sexually explicit issue aroused the ire of the Obscene Publications Squad. The trial ended with the defendants sentenced to hard labor, but an appeal absolved them, with the provision that they stop publishing the magazine.
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Kidron last directed the sequel "Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason".