Hi Mom! (Full Frame)

VHS, R, 87 minutes, MGM

Hailed as "One of the funniest, hippest, most audacious American comedies of the year" (Newsweek), "Hi, Mom!" established a young Brian De Palma ("Carrie," "The Untouchables") as a formidable directorial talent and a premier social commentary is bursting with incisive parodies of home movies, TV documentaries and 60's off-Broadway "encounter theatre" groups. Starring Robert De Niro in one of his earliest film roles, "Hi, Mom!" is "a funny movie (of) enormous exuberance" (Life Magazine) that delivers the laughs in "a voice that is the very voice of the age" ("The New Yorker").De Niro stars as John Rubin, a charmingly directionless Vietnam vet and would-be "erotic filmmaker." Convincing a film producer to finance his "peep art," Rubin sets up his camera to film the nocturnal activities of his unsuspecting neighbors. In short order, he goes from voyeur to participate - and mild-mannered milquetoast to fullfledged irban guerrilla when his camera draws him into the world of a "radical theatre" troupe. It's a brilliant, hilarious, funny and engaging" (Variety) odyssey through a surrel 60's landscape of campy counter-culture that keeps you laughing - and guessing - all along the way!.