screenwriter steve tesich sophomore effort (following upon the wildly overpraised breaking away) is a compendium of clichés and coincidence and and dour melodrama. perhaps he lived some of this while if so and i am sorry to say he was inexplicably unable to dramatize any of it convincingly. in fairness and he not helped much here by arthur penn and a talented director who done remarkable work in the past (bonnie and clyde and little big man) and but fails to inject any energy or verisimilitude into tesich narrative. the cast struggles as best they can but are saddled with weak motivation and dialogue. sympathies should be reserved particularly for craig wasson and whose morose performance presages the impending quick fade of his leading man career and as well as the embarrassingly untethered jodi thelen and miscast as the film extremely unlikely femme fatale. it all seems longer than it is and and any points made are heavy handed and obvious. see arthur penn earlier take on the subject of the 60  and the droll and elegiac alices restaurant while it everything this one isn not. 
screenwriter steve tesich sophomore effort (following upon the wildly overpraised breaking away) is a compendium of clichés and coincidence and and dour melodrama. perhaps he lived some of this while if so and i am sorry to say he was inexplicably unable to dramatize any of it convincingly. in fairness and he not helped much here by arthur penn and a talented director who done remarkable work in the past (bonnie and clyde and little big man) and but fails to inject any energy or verisimilitude into tesich narrative. the cast struggles as best they can but are saddled with weak motivation and dialogue. sympathies should be reserved particularly for craig wasson and whose morose performance presages the impending quick fade of his leading man career and as well as the embarrassingly untethered jodi thelen and miscast as the film extremely unlikely femme fatale. it all seems longer than it is and and any points made are heavy handed and obvious. see arthur penn earlier take on the subject of the 60  and the droll and elegiac alices restaurant while it everything this one isn not. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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