Dir. Karel Reisz · Starring Nick Nolte, Tuesday Weld, Michael Moriarty, Anthony Zerbe, Richard Masur, Ray Sharkey · Music Laurence Rosenthal
“A week ago they were strangers. An hour ago they were lovers. Now they are targets.”
CrimeActionDrama
John, a disillusioned Vietnam War journalist, turns to heroin smuggling. He cons Ray, an equally burnt out veteran into delivering the drugs stateside to his wife. Everything soon falls apart and Ray ends up on the run with John's wife trying to evade crooked narcotics agents.
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A bleak, sun-drenched descent into the drug trade's underbelly. This film feels like a gritty, desperate chase through a landscape scarred by war and betrayal, where trust is a luxury no one can afford.
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