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What's So Bad About Feeling Good?

What's So Bad About Feeling Good?

1968Movie⏱️ 1h 34mApproved
Comedy
6.5
IMDB Rating
622 votes

A new infection that simply makes people feel happy is treated as a threat by the authorities while its "victims" work to spread it to others.

Director
George Seaton
Writers
George Seaton, Robert Pirosh, Vincent McHugh
Stars
George Peppard, Mary Tyler Moore, Don Stroud
Release Date
July 31, 1968
Language
English, German, Greek, Russian, Spanish
Country
United States
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Reviews
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🎭 Top Cast

George Peppard
George Peppard
as Pete
Mary Tyler Moore
Mary Tyler Moore
as Liz
Don Stroud
Don Stroud
as Barney
Susan Saint James
Susan Saint James
as Aida
Dom DeLuise
Dom DeLuise
as J. Gardner Monroe
Nathaniel Frey
Nathaniel Frey
as Conrad
John McMartin
John McMartin
as The Mayor
Charles Lane
Charles Lane
as Dr. Shapiro
Jeanne Arnold
Jeanne Arnold
as Gertrude
George Furth
George Furth
as Murgatroyd

🎬 Technical Specs

Aspect Ratio
2.35 : 1
Filming Location
New York City, New York, USA
Production
Universal Pictures

🏷️ Keywords

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🎯 Categories

Comedy

⭐ Featured Review

Maybe silly, but a great lesson
by TLoeffler23862001-05-25

"This is a movie that should definitely be brought out on video, or played on television, or somehow brought into availability now. It is such a great commentary for our time, and probably more significant now than it was when it came out. I haven't seen it since 1968, and yet I still remember the lessons I learned from it. With all of the drugs and medications that are used to make people feel "good" and "happy", maybe we need to be reminded that if it's real, it comes from the inside. It is a silly movie, and certainly a dated one (beatniks?), but a young Geo..."

💡 Did You Know?

Thelma Ritter's final film; her screen debut, Miracle on 34th Street (1947), was also directed by George Seaton, making Ritter one of a handful of actors to be directed by the same person in both their first and last films.

📖 Synopsis

A new infection that simply makes people feel happy is treated as a threat by the authorities while its "victims" work to spread it to others.