The Strawberry Statement (DVD)

The phone rings in the college president's office. A coed, one of many students in the room, picks up. "We're sorry, the president will not be in today. The university is under new management." Set to anthemic songs of the time, the Strawberry Statement is both about and from the era of protests that swept campuses in the 1960s and '70s. Bruce Davison plays Simon, an athlete drawn to the excitement of a demonstration, to a girl (Kim Darby) he meets and ultimately, to the cause. The film ends with a police-and-National Guard raid on protesters that gave viewers of the day a knowing unease: student demonstrators had been shot; some fatally at Kent State University and Jackson State College in the month prior to the film's release.

Starring: Bruce Davison, Kim Darby, Bud Cort, Murray MacLeod, Tom Foral, Bob Balaban, Kristin Van Buren, Israel Horovitz, James Simon Kunen, James Coco, Danny Goldman, Kristina Holland, Eddra Gale, Michael Margotta, Bob Benjamin, Jeannie Berlin, Carol Bagdasarian, Jon Hill, Jess Walton, Andrew Parks, Booker Bradshaw, Drew Eshelman, Greta Pope, David Dukes, Ed Greenberg, Kertia Thomas, Debbie Muller, Bruce Neckels, Larry Canaga, Justin Christopher, Diann Henrichsen, Robin Menken, Christopher Pray, John R. Pray, Paul Willson, Henry Leff, Bert Remsen, Joe Quinn, Pat May, Bill Boelk, Randy Thornally, Pat Rooney, Jack Schmidt, King Moody, Bill Striglos, Joseph Reale, Nancy Burnett, Margo Winkler, Ruth Silveira, Julie Payne

Director: Irwin Winkler, Robert Chartoff