Josie's Castle

Name: Josie's Castle
Genre: Drama
Duration: 1 h 25 min
Rating: 4.9
Cast: Tom Holland, George Takei, Holly Mascott

1971
R
1h 25m

IMDb RATING

4.9/10

YOUR RATING

George Takei, Tom Holland, and Holly Mascott in Josie's Castle (1971)

Drama

Three (3) free spirits all who have recently been divorced and still in their twenties decide to shack up together and live a care free, free love, and drug infused lifestyle while the cops ... Read allThree (3) free spirits all who have recently been divorced and still in their twenties decide to shack up together and live a care free, free love, and drug infused lifestyle while the cops come sniffing around their little commune.Three (3) free spirits all who have recently been divorced and still in their twenties decide to shack up together and live a care free, free love, and drug infused lifestyle while the cops come sniffing around their little commune.

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IMDb RATING

4.9/10

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 2 wins

Trivia
On the June 15, 2006 edition of Howard Stern's Sirius Satellite radio program, Takei revealed that the sex scenes were shot with body doubles and added to the film only after the producer was unable to secure distribution for the film as it was originally edited. Takei states he was unaware of the additions until years later, and laughingly added that he was "impressed" with the body double used for his character.

Quotes
Ken: Honorable grandfather, literal Japanese gardener. Honorable father, bigass landscape architect. I, flower child.
Leonard: Yellow skin, green thumb.

Alternate versions
The version released on VHS in 1991 as "California Fever" by LD Video Productions runs about 25 seconds longer than the 2009 "Teenage Divorcee" DVD print by Secret Key (packaged on a multi-film DVD set entitled "Skin in the 70s"). The DVD release was transferred from a worn print in which various frames got lopped off, most notably around the reel changes. The VHS release was duplicated from a cleaner print.

Connections
Edited into Dusk to Dawn Drive-in Trash-o-Rama Show Vol. 9 (2002)

Soundtracks
Living for Today
Written by Jimmie Haskell & Graeme Kronsberg

User reviews4

Review

Featured review

6/10

Spacing out with Josie & Takei in the 70s

It might surprise some avid Star Trek fans that George Takei (who played Hikaru Sulu) stared in a sexploitation flick that made the drive-in rounds back in the early 70s.

That film is "Josie's Castle" which was also released as "Teenage Divorcée" and "The Young Divorcees." As the story opens "Josie" is getting divorced from her boring husband so then she and a couple of also-divorced guys (including Takei) rent a condemned "castle" for cheap.

They immediately make it into a hippie pad complete with parties, group sex, and pot smoking, much to the concern of their nosy landlady.

The landlady eventually calls the cops who escort the groovy trio to jail for drug dealing.

Josie also gets jealous because she thinks Takei & her boyfriend are gay.

Does Takei appears nude with Josie & gang (or just almost nude)? I'll never tell. Just see it for yourself at a theater probably nowhere near anybody (LOL) or demand that it gets put on DVD soon.

I'll give it a 6-plus.