Movies

What's So Bad About Feeling Good? (1968) Mary Tyler Moore and George Peppard are members of a group of Greenwich Village beatnik dropouts whose lives are changed by a toucan carrying a virus that makes people happy. Happiness in this case including a shave and a haircut and the urge to be meaningfully employed, or a new pink dress and the urge to be married with lots and lots of children. It also means a sharp reduction in the most profitable aspects of society: cigarettes, alcohol, anti-depressants, false advertising and war - so it must be stopped. Fun and silly, but the first half is the better. Interesting to watch the protagonists deliberately infecting others, carrying on acts of biological terrorism in New York City. I don't think this movie could get made today. 7/10