Turn On to Love[1] 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:
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.[2]
