SPIRIT OF ’76 Wednesday Night at Schlafly Bottleworks – Wear Your Bellbottoms!

“What sign are you? Because my mood ring just, like, totally changed colors!”

SPIRIT OF ’76 screens Wednesday night January 6th at Schlafly Bottleworks at 8pm

You never know what’s brewing at Webster University’s Strange Brew Film series, and this month, you’ll be able to go back in time – 40 years to a decade you probably never wanted to revisit. In SPIRIT OF ’76 (made in 1990), time travelers traveling to 1776 get inadvertently dropped in 1976 instead. Hilarity, bell bottoms and leisure suits ensue. SPIRIT OF ’76 used to play on cable a lot in the early ‘90s but I haven’t seen it in years. It’s one of those forgotten classics that, for some reason, has been forgotten (I guess that’s why they call it a ‘forgotten classic’). It’s silly and cheesy but I remember much of the humor being spot-on. One of my favorite aspects of the film are all the cameos…and starring roles….that are filled by established actors, both from the time the film is set (David Cassidy, Leif Garrett, Rob Reiner, Tommy Chong) and also from the late ’80s/early ’90s when it was filmed (Devo is in there and Chanel 9 is the sister from The Wonder Years). There are a lot of jabs, loving of course, taken at ’70s pop culture: Pintos blowing up, gas lines, 8-track players, pretentious New Age hogwash, The Hustle. What fun! The soundtrack is fantastic: The Carpenters, Grand Funk, and Afternoon Delight. As someone who grew up in the seventies, it was refreshing to see that decade depicted as strangely as it really was. Now you can relive the best decade of all time when SPIRIT OF ’76 when it plays Wednesday, January 6th  at Schlafly Bottleworks Restaurant and Bar in Maplewood (7260 Southwest Ave.- at Manchester – Maplewood, MO 63143) as part of their Strange Brew film series . The movie starts at 8pm and admission is $5. A yummy variety of food from Schlafly’s kitchen is available as are plenty of pints of their famous home-brewed beer.