Rip-Off: Trying To Find Your Own Thing[3] (better known simply as Rip-Off; French: Rêver en couleur;[2][4] U.S.: Virgin Territory)[5] is a 1971 Canadian slice of life teen comedy film[3][6][4] directed and co-edited by Don (Donald) Shebib, written by William Fruet, and produced by Bennett Fode, about the misadventures of four high school friends in their graduating year who make valiant but unsuccessful attempts to impress their school friends, especially the girls, trying filmmaking, forming a rock band, and starting a commune on a piece of land inherited by Michael (Don Scardino).

Four seniors at a large Toronto high school talk about what they are going to do next summer and beyond, not wanting to "waste" it like they did the year before.

In addition, the cast includes Guy Sanvido, Petunia Cameron-Swayze, Buddy Sault, Ann Lantuch, Andy Melzer, Dan Evered, Clara Sarkozi, Ed McNamara, Diane Dewey, Linda Houston, Susan Conway, Carman Gallo, and David Yorston.

Focusing on the trip to the country, Ralph Lucas considers disillusionment to be the "overriding theme" as, "somewhat predictably, in the end the young people are dismayed to discover they are not as different as they would like to be.

"[6] Geoff Pevere also focuses on that aspect of the story, the characters leaving the city for the "vast landscape, only to inevitably collide with their own delusions".

[8] John Hofsess saw Rip-Off as part of a larger trend in which the directors of teen movies shifted focus:By the time one reaches The Panic in Needle Park, Dusty and Sweets McGee, Bless the Beasts and Children, and, in particular, Don Shebib's Rip-Off, Clarke Mackey's The Only Thing You Know, and Peter Watkins' Punishment Park, it is clear that directors recognize that youth culture has curdled.

[3]Director Donald Shebib recounted in a 2013 interview how the distributor of his first feature, Goin' Down the Road, "wanted to make a film about teenagers, so I just sat down and started to write it.

"[10] In the same interview, Shebib remarked: "Bill Fruet writes dreadful women", and that he had to "fight" with him to make Sue more "sensitive".

[2] Michael (Dunky)'s home is in the North York suburb of Don Mills, while the plot of land left him by his grandfather is near Timmins.

The film is so uneven — annoyingly cute and predictable in one scene, genuinely funny and original the next — that it seems slapdash.

"[3] He praises the twenty-year-old Susan Petrie, who makes a "smashing debut" and steals scenes from every other actor, and proceeds to analyse both what works in the film and the contemporary audience response to similar films:Over a period of about five years Shebib evolved a documentary style suffused with a wry, ironic humanism.

It's a superb style for needling the sacred cows of the establishment and the sanctimonious bull of counter-culture groups.

[12] Ralph Lucas, publisher of Northern Stars - Canadian Movie Database, suggests that the film "works better now" as a piece of nostalgia than at the time of its release: "Back then, some of the scenes were almost unwatchable, probably due to the embarrassment of the audience recognizing themselves up there on the screen.