Linnea heacock biography of abraham

Taking Off (1971)

In Czechoslovakian film-maker Milos Forman's first American film - an insightful, charming, witty and comedic satirizing of the adult middle-class, with extremely creative editing; it examined the supposed generation gap from the parents' perspective - and was inspired by the Beatles' song "She's Leaving Home":

• the wavy opening credits sequence - intercut with young female singer-songwriters at an open-microphone for folk-music auditions
• the episodic film's main dilemma: teenaged 15 year-old daughter Jeannie Tyne (Linnea Heacock) had run away ("taken off") from her suburban home as a fugitive, leaving her distraught parents behind in Forest Hills, NY: balding, bespectacled, misguided and overworked Larry (Buck Henry) and overwrought nagging Lynn Tyne (Lynn Carlin), who were trying to understand what had happened
• the sequence of the parents' frantic search for Jeannie in neighborhood bars in NYC's Lower East Side (Greenwich Villa