In ’69, Hippies are everywhere in the city, spaghetti Westerns are the rage, Roman Polanski after Rosemary’s Baby is the hottest filmmaker. For those who missed the film, here’s the plot. Rick Dalton (Leonardo di Caprio) is a washed-up actor who has starred as lead in a few hit Western films and TV series, but now only gets to play the ‘heavy’ (villain). Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt) is his stunt double, who also doubles up as his driver, caretaker and buddy. Roman Polanski and his wife Sharon Tate (Margot Robbie), along with her ex-fiance Jay Sebring, have moved in as their neighbours in Ceilo Drive, a quiet, leafy LA residential area. The city is ‘infested’ with hippies; they are everywhere—rummaging through garbage bins for food, in their shaggy hair and unwashed bodies (the girls in short, short, Levi’s cutoffs). Ex-con Charles Manson is their spiritual guru, who has his ‘family’ settled in Spahn Movie Ranch, a leftover Western set. (Sharon Tate, who was eight months pregnant, Jay Sebring and three of their friends were murdered in August 1969 in their Ceilo Drive home by members of the Manson Family).