Critical Reception and Box Office Total
Critics shared some mixed feelings about the movie. Overall, the film has a 55% "Rotten" rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 11 critic reviews. ""1969," the directorial debut of Ernest Thompson, is an aimless drama, its purpose and promise lost in a thicket of false endings and a fog of nostalgia," wrote Rita Kempley of The Washington Post. Janet Maslin of The New York Times, wrote that "Mr. Dern, unusually laconic here, is unexpectedly moving as the character who seems most confused by changing times. And Variety said of it, "Affecting memories and good intentions don't always add up to good screen stories, and such is the case in 1969, one of the murkiest reflections on the Vietnam War era yet, notwithstanding good performances all around and bright packaging of Kiefer Sutherland and Robert Downey Jr. in the leads."
The film was a commercial disappointment, grossing $5,979,011 over an unestimatedly large budget.
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