This movie begins with one of The Monkees jumping off a bridge. And it ends with the four of them doing so. And in a way, that was what they were doing: committing career suicide. Their tv show was cancelled, they had become the joke of the hippie generation because (this sounds funny today) they didn't play their own instruments.
So they made this movie poking fun at themselves and of everything having to do with the 1960's. Directed by Bob Rafelson and written by Jack Nicholson in a drug induced haze, this is one of the great movies of its era. It has really cool music written by The Monkees, the best thing they had done. It has some amazing cameos and the last 20 minutes are just brilliant in their pure insanity.
It's playing on the Movie Channel at odd hours. Thank God for DVR. Worth seeing, to say the least.
By the way, the movie is called "Head" because Jack Nicholson thought it would be funny that if they ever did a second one, they could advertise it as "From the people who gave you "Head"..." He was on drugs.
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