Later in the movie, Arlo is called up for the draft, in a depiction of the at the military induction center on.
When the snow falls on one of the film's several funeral scenes, Dede Allen paces the footage beautifully, allowing us to feel the cold in the falling snowflakes.
We sold the church at that point.
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Yes, nobody expected a monster downer from Alice's Restaurant but that's exactly what we got.
He quits school, and subsequently hitchhikes back East.