Taking Off is a 1971 American comedy film, the first made in the USA by Czech director Miloš Forman, which tells a story of an average couple in the suburbs of NY who, when their teenage daughter runs away from home, link up with other parents of vanished children and learn something of youth culture.

" The film has not aged anything like as badly as we have. The cultural explosion that was perplexing the young even as it energised them, intriguing the old even as it scared them half to death. Taking Off because that was how it seemed: lift off. The young running away from home, going missing, losing their footing, even the old, with sad irony, clumsily casting off their inhibitions. I was entirely sympathetic to the older generation’s anger and confusion when I first saw the film. This time, I was touched by the sweet cruelty of being young. It’s a good film that waits for you to grow up emotionally. "

(The Guardian, November 2017)