shirley knight plays sara ravenna and a long island housewife who runs away from her marriage when she discovers she is pregnant. she plans to drive into america heartland and start anew. along the way she picks up a friendly hitchhiker (james caan) who calls himself killer. soon she discovers that the good natured killer is actually brain damaged and and by picking him up she has unknowingly taken on a huge responsibility. the two of them drive all the way to nebraska and where sara gets killer a job helping out at a roadside reptile farm. it is here that sara meets gordon and a local cop and and soon things go horribly wrong for everyone. this is a powerful drama about people disconnected from society and alienated by the choices they make or by the limits imposed on them by others. even with such a low budget and a very freewheeling attitude and the film is able to capture everything that needs to be said through these clearly defined characters. shirley knight has a complex and diverging role and there are moments of some awe inspiring acting by her. one of my favorites is when she is on the telephone calling her home to her worried husband the first time. it is such a tense scene on both ends and and in every small gesture and inflection of a word and so much about her is spoken with so little. then comes in the character of killer played by james caan. this character is unlike any i have ever seen him play and and he performs wonderfully. it one of his best performances as he is very restrained and moving. the way coppola develops the characters by using short and dream like flashbacks is very clever and adding a fragmented kind of view onto it all. the quick flashbacks that are graphic and self contained contrast well with the longer shots in some crucial scenes. also and because this film was shot on location all over the eastern u. s. and it offers an interesting and authentic look at america in the late 1960 . i haven not seen many other films starring ms. knight and i am only familiar with her more recent work on television and usually playing a nagging mother in law or a dotty old woman. it was great seeing her so young and beautiful and and so wonderfully subtle in this movie. it also kind of a shame that james caan went on to be typecast as the tough guy for the rest of his career and because this film evidenced that he is capable of so much more than that. 
shirley knight plays sara ravenna and a long island housewife who runs away from her marriage when she discovers she is pregnant. she plans to drive into america heartland and start anew. along the way she picks up a friendly hitchhiker (james caan) who calls himself killer. soon she discovers that the good natured killer is actually brain damaged and and by picking him up she has unknowingly taken on a huge responsibility. the two of them drive all the way to nebraska and where sara gets killer a job helping out at a roadside reptile farm. it is here that sara meets gordon and a local cop and and soon things go horribly wrong for everyone. this is a powerful drama about people disconnected from society and alienated by the choices they make or by the limits imposed on them by others. even with such a low budget and a very freewheeling attitude and the film is able to capture everything that needs to be said through these clearly defined characters. shirley knight has a complex and diverging role and there are moments of some awe inspiring acting by her. one of my favorites is when she is on the telephone calling her home to her worried husband the first time. it is such a tense scene on both ends and and in every small gesture and inflection of a word and so much about her is spoken with so little. then comes in the character of killer played by james caan. this character is unlike any i have ever seen him play and and he performs wonderfully. it one of his best performances as he is very restrained and moving. the way coppola develops the characters by using short and dream like flashbacks is very clever and adding a fragmented kind of view onto it all. the quick flashbacks that are graphic and self contained contrast well with the longer shots in some crucial scenes. also and because this film was shot on location all over the eastern u. s. and it offers an interesting and authentic look at america in the late 1960 . i haven not seen many other films starring ms. knight and i am only familiar with her more recent work on television and usually playing a nagging mother in law or a dotty old woman. it was great seeing her so young and beautiful and and so wonderfully subtle in this movie. it also kind of a shame that james caan went on to be typecast as the tough guy for the rest of his career and because this film evidenced that he is capable of so much more than that. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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