MoPoshy Absolutely brilliant

Limerculer A waste of 90 minutes of my life

Portia Hilton Blistering performances.

Francene Odetta It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

jcain1635 I can see the charm in propaganda films that are well made or fun to poke fun at. This was just dreadfully boring. Things just happen. The characters have no real motivations. The acting is just bad enough to be annoying. The camera work is all flat shots. I would prefer to be waterboarded than to watch this dull film again.

lazarillo This is an alarmist TV movie based on an alarmist young adult novel supposedly based on the diary of an actual fifteen-year-old girl who died of a drug overdose. The novel's origins were recently debunked, but anyone with a casual familiarity with drugs ought to realize both the book and the movie are mostly a lot of bunk. For instance, at one point in the book the character becomes a prostitute because she is addicted to LSD. Huh?! First off LSD, can create dangerous delusions and it might melt your mind, but it is NOT addictive. Moreover, it has always retailed for about $1 a hit and any "habit" could be financed by spare-changing for about a half an hourDrugs ARE dangerous, even alcohol and marijuana to some extent, but I don't why people who have obviously never experienced them feel they have to make up ridiculous lies about them to keep kids away. If you tell kids that LSD or marijuana are addictive when they're not, they're not going to believe you about crack or heroin. And while I wouldn't recommend drugs to anybody, I wouldn't recommend going through life being a total tool either.But getting to the movie (which actually leaves out some of the more absurd scenes of the book), I kind of liked it. It has a very groovy 70's feel to it. Being a TV movie it doesn't have nearly enough psychedelic freak out scenes, but it's better than most TV movies, definitely better than the kind they make today. It also feature Ayn Ruymen, a really pretty if obscure actress who appeared in Paul Bartel's "Private Parts" about the same time. Of course, it also was the debut of McKenzie Phillips the first of three completely untalented daughters of John Phillips of the "Mamas and Papas" fame, and if you know anything about THAT family, it's pretty ironic that any of them would have appeared in an anti-drug movie. Still it's good to finally this is available on (legitimate) DVD.

keshlam-nospam I saw Go Ask Alice as a high school student, shortly after it was made. Admittedly I was a relatively sophisticated film viewer, but my reaction to it was that it was a weak effort. I found the acting wooden and the script heavy-handed. One of the scenes where the girls discover something that shocks them completely failed to shock me, perhaps because I wasn't either young enough or narrow-minded enough to find it more than mildly surprising.I would call it a period piece -- not as over-the-top as some of the more hysterical what's-wrong-with-our-kids efforts generally classified as Exploitation Films, but unfortunately not far short of that. It has the same sort of "one little slip from the straight and narrow and you're sliding toward hell" assumptions as many other morality plays, and that actually weakens it as a propaganda/educational (take your pick) effort.Maybe the book was better. Or maybe you needed to be younger (and/or female?) and see it before "the 60's" (which actually ran partly into the 70's) started fading. Or maybe you needed to be predisposed toward the lesson it was trying to teach. But as a film (never mind as a message) it just didn't work for me. If I'd had any interest in drugs (which I never have), I don't think this would have changed my mind... and it didn't succeed in convincing me that it was even a good composite picture, never mind a portrait of an individual.I will admit I have not viewed it since then. But since part of what others have discussed has been how it affected them, I felt a comment on how it failed to affect me was appropriate.Just one ex-kid's reaction. "This is the kind of movie that is liked by the kind of people who like this kind of movie. I'm not one of them."

lynda_h I was 13 when this film came out. I was in catholic school and the movie was shown one afternoon in religion class. Very powerful and very scary. Unfortunately it didn't scare me enough. Although I was an A-B student, I experimented with drugs in high school and over the years and wound up a full blown addict by the time I was 39. Today I am over 6 years clean. While watching a documentary on illegal drugs on the History Channel, I thought about this movie and how it should be shown in schools across America, even though it came out in 1973. Hollywood and television producers in this country should not be afraid to tackle this topic on a deeper level...drug addiction is alive and well in America and we need to prepare our children with profound and factual information even if it scares them to death. Drug addiction, as with other addictions, can be arrested if caught in time. The sad thing is that, if we continue to turn a blind eye to our borders, to our communities, to our schools and to our children, we'll continue to cultivate generations of addicts and will have no one to blame but ourselves. "Button, button...who's got the button?!" ...It's up to US to decide!