Drifter Bone (Jeff Bridges) is a man afraid of commitment, content to do little, who falls back on his pretty-boy looks to bed any woman who crosses his path. Alex Cutter (John Heard), a slightly crazed Vietnam vet, desperately wants to get involved in anything to stop living in a bottle of alcohol. Cutter's wife (Lisa Eichhorn) is torn between remaining loyal to her physically crippled husband and falling in love with the emotionally crippled Bone. Passer intelligently introduces a murder mystery element to explore the characters and the world they live in. The opening minutes are an object lesson in the comingling of images with Jack Nitzsche's music and draw the audience into the film's absorbing game. Nothing is spelled out in Passer's ambiguous story. Rather, he created a cinematic oddity about decision-making that poses an interesting question: is life merely a collection of random events, or has everything been planned? 1981, U.S., BW and color, 35mm, 105 minutes.




SPECIAL THANKS TO MARILEE WOMACK (WARNER BROS. CLASSICS), IRENE RAMOS AND TANY TAYLOR (MGM), MIKE SCHLESINGER (COLUMBIA), AND BRIAN CLAUSSEN (SWANK).