Larry Tyne and his wife Lynn return home one evening to find that their teenage daughter Jeannie is not there. (Viewers know she is attending an audition, clips from which, with future star performers like 詳細

• Linnea Heacock as Jeannie Tyne
• Lynn Carlin as Lynn Tyne
• Buck Henry as Larry Tyne
• Georgia Engel as … 詳細

In 1968 Forman obtained a visa to plan a US film. Forman and Ivan Passer arranged a "house on Leroy Street in Greenwich Village" and studied the counterculture there.
The plot of Taking Off was inspired by a girl found murdered in an … 詳細

The film shared the Grand Prix (ex aequo)(second prize) with Johnny Got His Gun at the 1971 Cannes Film Festival. The film received six nominations, without a win at the 1972 BAFTA awards: Best Direction (for Forman), Best Film, Best Film Editing (for Carter), … 詳細

Writing in The New York Times, Vincent Canby declared that "Taking Off is not a major movie experience, but it is — a good deal of the time — a charming one." Variety called it "a very compassionate, very amusing contemporary comedy." However, John Simon wrote … 詳細

Until 2008, Taking Off was not available on home video due to music rights complications.
Taking Off was released to Blu-ray Disc, by British company Park Circus, on 7 November 2011 as a Region-2 widescreen Blu-ray Disc and … 詳細

Forman, Miloš; Guare, John; Carrière, Jean-Claude; Klein, John (1971). Taking Off. New York: Signet.
A novelization, with new "scene settings" written by Forman and Nancy Hardin (by 1977, vice president of Paramount Pictures ), and an essay … 詳細