I graduated in 65 in the Florida Panhandle so everything wasn’t the same but still the movie gave me that feeling several times.
That feeling that I had been there before. No matter what I think of Lucas it was a good movie.
It’s easy to get that feeling when watching old movies and TV shows, that they represent a time and place far removed from where we are today.
You and I must be about the same age. I rarely see any movies, but I did catch this one on television back in the early 1990s, and I remember thinking that it rang true for me as depicting the middle class white culture of the time.