The Stranger

Hippies, a judo-killer bank robber who becomes a spiritual leader, people with names like Orbit Aquarian, celebrities—what’s not to like? The Source Family was an early-1970s Southern California commune that formed around Jim Baker, later known as Father Yod. He started a vegetarian organic restaurant on Sunset Boulevard that morphed into a community of attractive young people who saw Baker as their father. As this documentary notes, they transformed sex, drugs, and rock and roll into a genuine religious formation. (Harvard Exit Theatre, 807 E Roy St, thestranger.com/siff, 11:30 am, $8) by Gillian Anderson

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