Happy as the Grass Was Green, later renamed Hazel's People, is a 1973 American drama film directed by Charles Davis and starring Geraldine Page, Pat Hingle and Graham Beckel.
A Mennonite family's son is shot to death by police at an unnamed New York university while protesting the Vietnam War.
His brother and another college student, Eric Mills, portrayed by Graham Beckel, go to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, stay on the family farm and attend his funeral.
Once Mills arrives in the small town, he connects with the simple lifestyle there and discovers the Christian faith of the Mennonites.
In the end, he decides to go back to the "world" instead of joining the small, religious community, in order to work on improving injustice, that now he could approach in a new way.