The 60s

• 5.963 Drama
• 1999-02-07
• 172 minutes mins

The Herlihys are a working class family from Chicago whose three children take wildly divergent paths: Brian joins the Marines right out of High School and goes to Vietnam, Michael becomes involved in the civil rights movement and after campaigning for Bobby Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy becomes involved in radical politics, and Katie gets pregnant, moves to San Francisco and joins a hippie commune. Meanwhile, the Taylors are an African-American family living in the deep South. When Willie Taylor, a minister and civil rights organizer, is shot to death, his son Emmet moves to the city and eventually joins the Black Panthers, serving as a bodyguard for Fred Hampton.

Starring:

Josh Hamilton (Michael Herlihy) Julia Stiles (Katie Herlihy) Jerry O'Connell (Brian Herlihy) Jeremy Sisto (Kenny Klein) Jordana Brewster (Sarah Weinstock) Leonard Roberts (Emmet Taylor) Bill Smitrovich (Bill Herlihy) Annie Corley (Mary Herlihy) Donovan Leitch (Neal Reynolds) David Alan Grier (Fred Hampton)

Director:

Mark Piznarski

Writer:

Robert Greenfield Bill Couturié