Love in a Four Letter World is a Canadian softcore pornographic film, directed by John Sone and released in 1970.
[1] The film stars Michael Kane and Helen Whyte as Harry and Vera Haven, a wealthy couple whose lives are turned upside down when a group of hippies move into a commune in the house next door, drawing first their daughter Susan (Candy Greene), and then Helen herself, into their bohemian free love philosophy.
Martin Knelman of The Globe and Mail panned it, writing that "people smile over drinks and comment politely about the photography or the humor, but really there's no saving grace about Love in a Four Letter World.
Even technically, it's dreadfully amateurish, and as for humor the word is in this case a euphemism for the hideous smirking that infests a movie when those involved aren't sure whether they can get away with playing the material straight or whether it would be better to try passing it off as camp,"[2] while Marilyn Beker of the Montreal Gazette wrote that it "is not a bad movie.
The sets are all polished and modern but the aging conceptualizers tried their hardest to figure out what the inside of a 'hippie pad' would look like and came out with a kind of Better Homes and Gardens version of how poor-but-arty people should live.