I Love You, Alice B. Toklas! (1968) on Netflix
Harold Fine, a Los Angeles attorney, calls himself a square, and his wedding to his fiancée Joyce is coming. At the butcher's funeral he meets Nancy, his brother's free-spirited girlfriend.
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Joyce, Harold Fine's secretary and fiancée, corners him into setting a date for their wedding, and Harold, a Los Angeles attorney, dreads it along with middle age. After a fender bender he drives a station wagon painted in psychedelic colors. Taking his brother Herbie to the funeral of the family butcher, he meets Nancy, Herbie's girlfriend, who goes barefoot and lives by flower power. Nancy takes a liking to Harold, spends a night at his house, and bakes a batch of brownies, leaving before she mentions the special ingredient. Unaware, he eats from the batch and passes it to his parents and his fiancée; laughter and silliness overtake them, and Harold treats the experience as a revelation.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about I Love You, Alice B. Toklas! (1968)
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- Sellers kicked Mazursky out of the film after an exchange about "vibrations" when Mazursky tried to get him to act tougher toward Leigh Taylor-Young, and Mazursky then had to sneak out to see dailies.
- After Peter Sellers signed as star, the directing search went from Jonathan Miller, whom Sellers rejected over a comment about music, to Mazursky, whom Sellers briefly accused of fooling around with his wife Britt Ekland.
- Sellers relented and asked Mazursky for help in collaboration after one week of filming, which made Mazursky the "first mate" of what Sellers thought was a sinking ship.
- The film's title refers to writer Alice B. Toklas, a real person whose 1954 autobiographical cookbook contained a recipe for "Haschich Fudge".
