Turn On to Love

{{Infobox film

| name = Turn On to Love

| image = Turn On to Love.jpg

| alt =

| caption = Film poster

| director = John G. Avildsen

| producer = L.T. Kirtman
Hank Rifkin

| writer = Atlas Geodesic

| story = Herman Worth

| narrator =

| starring = Sharon Kent
Richard Michaels
Luigi Mastroianni

| music = Harmon Thronebury

| cinematography = John G. Avildsen

| editing = John G. Avildsen

| studio =

| distributor = Haven International Pictures

| released = {{film date|df=yes|1969|12|19}}

| runtime = 83 minutes

| country = United States

| language = English

| budget =

| gross =

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Turn On to Love{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gQhFCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA120|title=Cocaine Fiends and Reefer Madness: An Illustrated History of Drugs in the Movies 1894-1978|isbn=9781579511890|last1=Starks|first1=Michael|date=28 April 2015}} is a 1969 film directed by John G. Avildsen and starring Sharon Kent, Richard Michaels, and Luigi Mastroianni. The film marks Avildsen's feature directorial debut.

Premise

A bored housewife starts spending time in liberal Greenwich Village, where she gets involved with pot-smoking hippies and an Italian filmmaker.

Cast

Sharon Kent as Janice
Richard Michaels as Gerard
Luigui Mastroianni as Rico
Jackie Riley as Randy
Frank Rogers as Roach
Elizabeth Tarrington as Betty
Steve Wingate as Henry

Reception

Roger Greenspun of The New York Times found the film average but liked the fact that it is not preachy when it comes to its subjects, and had harsh words for the lead actress:

{{cquote |Nothing extraordinary happens.... Janice, played by Sharon Kent, is a very attractive girl, good at everything except reading her lines.... Turn On to Love earns a real edge in the field of sex-cum-exposé because it respects its people and utterly avoids phony moral outrage.{{Cite news|url=http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9807EED6123CEE34BC4851DFB4678382679EDE|title='Turn on to Love'|newspaper=The New York Times|date=20 December 1969|last1=Greenspun|first1=Roger}}}}