Taking Off (1971) on Netflix
Larry and Lynn Tyne come home in New York City to find their daughter Jeannie gone. Their friends Tony and Margot help them look, and the men check the neighborhood bars.
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Plot summary
The Tynes are an average couple in New York City. When their teenage daughter Jeannie is not at home, Larry and Lynn telephone the Divitos, the family with whose daughter Jeannie was supposed to be, and learn nothing about where she has gone. Friends Tony and Margot come over to support them. The men are pushed out to check the bars of the neighborhood while the women wait by the phone.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Taking Off (1971)
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- Miloš Forman's idea for Taking Off came from a girl found murdered in an apartment not far from his; a newspaper told of a girl who left her affluent Connecticut family every Monday to live on the street in New York while telling her parents she was in school.
- Linnea Heacock was discovered, with friends, in Washington Square Park and cast as the runaway daughter Jeannie Tyne; it was her only film role.
- The cast of Taking Off was encouraged to improvise, working from Miloš Forman's descriptions of the overall shape of a scene.
