MY BROTHER - THE GURU
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Year Published: 1971
Description:
This anti-drug, anti-addiction film from 1971, "My Brother the Guru" portrays the story of Sharon, visiting her older brother and his girlfriend. She joins a party hosted by her brother’s girlfriend, tries alcohol and drugs for the first time, and is gravely injured due to a bad trip. The film has religious agenda and was presented by Family Films, a Christian producer, and written by Don Hall, directed by Corey Allen, produced by Stan and Melvin Hersh, photographed by Taylor Byars, and edited by Kenneth Rolin Kling. The cast consists of Geoffrey Deuel, Christina Hart, Kathy Lloyd, Paul Mantee, Bruce Kimmel, and Page Forsythe.
A building and trees (00:10). A residential street (00:20). A man, Warren, plays a record player and tidies up a living room (00:26). A woman, Marcia, enters the living room and they start arguing (01:10). She starts smoking inside (01:54). They continue arguing (02:09). Marcia leaves (02:55). “My Brother - The Guru” title banner (03:12). Credits (03:19). Warren continues tidying up (03:36). Credits (03:39). Warren’s younger sister Sharon arrives (04:25). She sits down and they start conversing (04:42). Sharon looks around the apartment (05:12). Warren gets dressed (05:51). Sharon looks at some mail (05:55). Sharon and Warren are eating lunch at Warren’s university’s cafeteria (06:18). Warren introduces his professor, Steve, to Sharon, and they converse (06:28). Steve sits down at their table and talks with Sharon (06:50). Steve leaves (07:23) and Sharon and Warren are talking (07:32). Sharon confronts Warren about lying about Marcia and they argue (08:31). Marcia and Warren are talking in the living room (09:25). Marcia hosts a party in their apartment and guests smoke joints and drink alcohol (10:47). Marcia and Warren are sitting together (11:08). Sharon talks to a guy (11:17). Marcia and Warren are sitting together and Marcia is smoking a joint (11:34). Warren smokes too (12:16). They kiss (12:27). Sharon is playing guitar (12:38). The guy next to her has fallen asleep (12:46). She dances with a guy (12:58). She walks towards Warren and Marcia who are kissing on the floor (13:14) and steps over them (13:18). Warren looks up to find Sharon (13:27). Sharon lays behind them on a sofa and they talk (13:28). Marcia offers Sharon a joint and she accepts (13:53). Warren is angry and leaves (13:55). Marcia teaches Sharon how to smoke (14:00). Slow-motion footage of Sharon, Warren, and other party guests dancing (14:41), and drinking (15:06). They sit around the sofa table and smoke shisha (15:39). Sharon watches a burning candle (15:47). She takes a drink from a girl (15:54). Slow-motion footage of guests dancing (16:08). Slow-motion footage of Sharon moving strangely due to intoxication (16:18). Sharon’s face is twitching as she closely watches a burning candle (16:31). Warren and Marcia are sleeping on the floor (17:00). Warren wakes up (17:08) and looks for Sharon (17:23). He finds her on the balcony acting distraught (17:38). He tries to calm her down (17:42). He wakes up Marcia for help (17:48). Both Warren and Marcia try to calm Sharon down (18:00). They help her inside (18:30) and sit her on the couch (18:52). Warren and Marcia discuss the situation (19:01). Warren leaves to buy medicine (19:33). Marcia sits down next to Sharon (19:47). A lit candle is burning down (19:56). Marcia is sleeping in the chair (20:00). Sharon is sitting still and staring blankly (20:02). The candle burns out (20:06). Sharon walks to the balcony (20:15). She draws the curtains and hallucinates a bright light (20:25). Marcia wakes up from a loud crash (20:37). She discovers Sharon has crashed through the window (20:39). Warren comes home (20:43). Sharon lies injured on the balcony (20:51). A driving ambulance (20:53). Warren breaks up with Marcia and leaves the apartment carrying boxes (21:01). Marcia cries (22:53). A Jesus-quote (23:03). Credits (23:16).
Transcription
[Music] your face is familiar and so is your name but something about you is the same is it because of the places will you be going again all this noise oh warren this passion for order is really very impressive hey that's what i love about you you're always so easy to talk to look why don't you tell me what's what's putting you up tight so your little sister's coming so what so want the place clean and empty hey it's just gonna get all messed up again tonight man there's something compulsive about two nights in a row with this freak scene okay warren they're friends and i happen to like them being around they're not gonna destroy your little sister they sure won't because i'm taking her out to a movie tonight you're on your own sweetheart fine just fine who needs you you're such a drag when you're like this one well you just remember just stay away from here this afternoon okay look i haven't the least desire to socialize with your little sister i'm going to the library great goodbye oh you're so gracious warren you make me sick oh put that out now warren remember to act like you never smoke okay i mean who knows maybe little sister like to blow some grass today okay come on give me it come on you're smelling up the room okay warren you can make some explanation for it just like all the rest of the lies you're telling about how this is your apartment and you share it with some other fella who just happened to be out today come on invent something you know marcia sometimes you're really a pain [Music] you know warren if people could hear you talk like that they'd think we were married [Music] which come to think of it might be just kicks to explain to your little sister roomie [Music] the faces that you see are the upside down reminders that it's me that it's me that it's me that it's me that it's me that it's me that it's me that's me up here sharon come on up [Music] oh wow you look great how's mom she's fine she wanted to come only she couldn't because she had an installation at her club meeting that she couldn't miss how was the drive down oh it's beautiful had the whole road to myself most of the time when'd you leave around seven this morning or last night this morning silly well you must have been hitting 80 most of the time you know that junkie won't do more than 60. oh i guess you had a tailwind hey warren i got here i really like this pad do you rent it like this or did you buy all this stuff oh we just kind of furnished it along the way we oh i share it with another guy not a bad housekeeper for a guy oh don't give him all the credit i do i do my [ __ ] hey you know it smells funny in here funny well yeah don't you notice it i guess i'm used to it you know our apartment building is good and you get some weird smells have you had lunch no and i'm starved okay we'll grab a bite on the way over to weaver hall that's where i've got you set up for the weekend oh well i could just fix this something right here i know we're just about out of everything and anyway it'll give me a chance to show you around the campus a bit okay i'm ready okay i'll be right with you i want to meet some of your friends too warren oh warren what's your roommate's name what your roommate what's his name oh john john smith oh interesting roommate dear warren what'd you say i said nice setup you got here warren well it's kind of convenient i like it yeah it's sort of in not expensive either well there's someone i'd like you to meet hey steve some of the factors too hi warren sharon i'd like you to meet professor terrell steve this is my sister sharon hello hello sharon lawrence told me about you well he's mentioned you in his letters you're a thesis advisor aren't you dr pharrell that's right and also his biochemistry teacher yes we struggle through that together too would you like to join us sure i can only stay a minute though i uh understand you're going to enter this fall yeah i'm really looking forward to it warren says it's a whole new lifestyle yeah it's a whole new bag a guy really learns a lot around here have you decided what you're going to major in i think it'll be education i thought about teaching or something that leads into social work good whatever you choose you'll find some very challenging courses here i guess they're not too challenging good luck sharon i'm very happy to have met you i've got an appointment across campus i'll uh see you in class next week yeah cheers bye john bye nice meeting you bye bye-bye [Music] that sounded like he was asking you a question just a gentle reminder that i've cut his class a couple times he seems like a really beautiful person yeah he's a good man at least he cares enough about his students to know whether they're in class or not here why don't you give me your tray warren you blowing pot this morning why well it smelled like it to me do you know what pot smells like i'm 18 and i haven't been living in a cave that's how i know wow you have changed in the last six months we've always been close big brother stop trying to pick up where daddy left off i'm a big girl now no braids no braces we can be straight with each other all right so i smoke a little pot now in there but that wasn't me smoking this morning that was my roommate john smith yeah john smith then who's marsha marsha marsha who marsha riggs how do you know about her i saw the mail addressed to her at the same address and same apartment number oh that that's just some friend of john's who has some mail sent care of him oh warren you never were a very convincing liar hey now wait a minute i wasn't really shocked about the marijuana but then to find out that you set up housekeeping with a girl a girl not just because you saw some letters and some makeup stuff in the kitchen so she is my roommate i want to meet this marsha person no i don't i don't think it'd be such a good idea you're really funny you get so uptight and moralistic what do you mean moralistic one you're such a phony sometimes hey come on she's right between the two of you i'm doing just great you'll adjust [Applause] did she faint when you told her about us are you kidding she couldn't wait to meet you oh this younger generation i don't know what they're coming to absolutely no sense of morals would be serious she's a good kid but she's more hip to what's going on than i realized well you you better realize the thing that bothers me most is that all the time i was showing her around she kept bugging me to bring her to this thing tonight why did you tell her about it i had no choice i planned dinner in a show but she insisted on meeting you for hell if she's old enough to vote she might as well get in the swing of things yeah that's what i'm afraid of with this group there's too much swinging i never noticed you suffering that's not the point well what is the point the point is i'm responsible for sharon responsible are you kidding will you quit playing games a little pop never hurt anybody i'm not worried about pot it's other stuff that shows up at these parties and alice and duke always bring something when they get going so what if they want to go tripping that's their business as long as you're being so responsible i suggest you keep your eyes open and see that little sister stays away from anything else here [Music] [Applause] oh [Music] [Applause] how long have you been playing all of them playing what i love the guitar silly oh how many years uh about three i guess hey you wanna wanna play hey why don't you snap out of it you you've been watching her like somebody's gonna steal it i told you i gotta keep an eye on why don't you keep an eye on me [Music] oh baby i'm really worrying about you you know you are getting to have a mind like like a blue surge mine you know and at a very ripe young age why don't you open up and and let the sunshine in come on you'll feel a lot better okay okay [Music] you know you're really a beautiful man when you want to be [Music] uh [Music] [Music] hi don't look so worried i got lonesome i think you've seen enough of this i'm gonna take you home oh don't let him hassle you you've never heard of women's live just do whatever you want whenever you want hey look you stay out of this hey come on i'm gonna be down here next fall without you to watch over me i better find out what's happening now all right have you ever tried anything marsha i know sharon now what you do is you inhale it and then you hold it in as long as you can and then you let it out very very slowly now you have to take more you have to take more than okay okay you'll get used to it [Music] oh [Music] oh yeah [Music] [Music] so [Music] you ever tried what is it happiness [Music] [Music] um [Music] is marsha wake up come on baby i need your help please get out the chairs and i don't know what to do leave me alone [Music] honey baby come on [Music] [Applause] the balcony better close that door and lock it okay little grass wouldn't have made her act like this no she's had more than grass there's some creep some acid and methane i don't know they've been mixing it but they've been mixing everything oh man she's new to pot you know she never had anything like that oh acid's pretty heavy but if there's meth in it okay do we have anything to bring her down no but she may not need anything uh even so i i want to be ready just okay well where are you gonna go over to stu frazier you usually have some good stuff on hand okay but do you know what time it is it doesn't matter it'll understand hurry back i will now just keep your eyes on [Music] [Music] so [Music] okay [Music] [Applause] god what does it mean warren what good is it gonna do give me a chance to breathe a little just to think if you're leaving it's your own bag it's not my idea you and your middle class conscience middle class what are we and you never had to work a day in your life your parents paid for this whole trip i'll see you warren you once said you loved me i thought i did never promised each other anything did we no maybe that was the mistake we we never promised each other anything just go [Music] your faces [Music] is [Music] broken [Music] that it's me that it's me that it's me you
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