1968 - GREETINGS De Palma's draft dodger comedy

You can get a nice nostalgic feeling for the 1960's in Greetings.  Return to the good old days when a young man's preoccupation was staying out of the Vietnam War by avoiding the draft at all costs.  This is essentially the plot of Brian De Palma's film.

Since this was a film shot on a limited budget,  De Palma has the scenes run a long time which allows the actors to do their thing.  A young Robert De Niro sticks out in the cast and he's actually kind of likable.  Another De Palma regular Gerrit Graham is De Niro's friend an avid Kennedy assassination conspiracy researcher.

Even if this is an early De Palma film, you still get to see  his fascinations with voyeurism, sex and film with jokes about Blow Up and Hitchcock in particular. 

De Palma has a sense of humor it's just not one that's always been appreciated or understood by the critics.

Nice peppy theme song and nice to see LBJ book ending the film.

88 minutes.  Written by Charles Hirsch and Brian De Palma.