[1] It tells a story of an average couple in the suburbs of New York City, who, when their teenage daughter runs away from home, connect with other parents of vanished children and learn something of youth culture.

(Viewers know she is attending an audition, clips from which, with future star performers like Carly Simon and Kathy Bates, recur throughout the film).

Enlisting their friends Tony and Margot, the two men search the neighbourhood bars while the women stay by the phone and gossip about sex.

Happily high, Larry and Lynn take Ann and her husband Ben back to their home for more drinks and a game of strip poker.

As the group gets more inebriated, a naked Larry jumps on top of the table to sing "Libiamo ne' lieti calici".

Forman and Ivan Passer arranged a "house on Leroy Street in Greenwich Village"[2] and studied the counterculture there.

A newspaper story reported about "a girl who would leave her affluent family in Connecticut every Monday to spend the week living on the street in New York City, all the while telling her folks that she was in school".