A really good movie with an unlikely cast and virtually no plot. Kris Kristofferson is a singer whose career has seen better days, blackmailed into selling drugs by crooked cop Gene Hackman. The movie is episodic, but those episodes are terrific, particularly when Kristofferson and former band-mate Harry Dean Stanton hook up with a couple of party girls (one of which is played by Warhol superstar Viva, sporting a pretty unattractive perm). Hackman really only appears briefly and the film is carried by Kristofferson (and he's great). In addition to Stanton and Viva, the supporting cast includes Antonio Fargas, Allan Arbus and Karen Black, who gives what has to rank as her least affected performance. As Kristofferson's live-in girlfriend, she's almost a revelation.
The film is NOT in league with FIVE EASY PIECES, but it's a very well made study of an outsider who really doesn't want to be an insider! Directed by the always unusual Bill L. Norton.
The film is NOT in league with FIVE EASY PIECES, but it's a very well made study of an outsider who really doesn't want to be an insider! Directed by the always unusual Bill L. Norton.