![]() ![]() Michael Sarrazin stars as William Popper, a college student who accidentally kills an old woman while driving in the rain one night. It tells a good story in a straightforward manner, refraining from indulging in any filler and giving impressive acting showcases to a fine bunch of actors. It's a thoughtful drama, adapted by Jon Boothe and George Sherman from the novel by Thomas Rogers. It seems almost forgotten nowadays, which really is too bad. ![]() ![]() ![]() Reviewed by Hey_Sweden 8 / 10 Interesting, unfortunately obscure little drama. This is an offbeat drama Michael Sarazin is perfectly cast as the lunar poetic young man ,who seems overtaken by events ,as he was in his lifetime performance in "they shoot horses don't they?".Although he's poisoned with protection,we feel how irrational how misfit he is in the world he lives in:the first sequence of the toy boat (model) and the bluesy lazy song by Randy Newman (heard twice) which fits the movie like a glove is revealing as is the sequence we first meet a member of his family ,the straight auntie ,in the apartment which looks like a time capsule of the early seventies:a Mothers of Invention cover ,a Dylan poster.Įven after what he has done,the whole family sides with him (because their bourgeois honor is at stake),but the hero feels an invisible menace ,something in the air in the country he lives in ,something which remains very vague A recurrent feature in mulligan's work :something is threatening in the shadow see" the spiral road" "the stalking moon" "the other" and even "baby the rain must fall" it's certainly not a one -year sentence which scares him ,but perhaps a society he cannot be part of because he is not prepared to accept a compromise,to be the "spit picture of cousin Terrence". Reviewed by dbdumonteil 7 / 10 Let him go However, the more he tries to do the right thing, the more trouble he seems to get into. After getting into a fatal car accident in which he accidentally kills an elderly woman, he wants to do the right thing In dealing with this situation, but doesn't like that in order to save himself from prison, he has to put on a mask to satisfy those with authority. A college dropout in New York City, William's aimless and has no idea what to do with his life. His family and most of his peers see him as an anti-social crusader. William Popper comes from a well-off family. ![]()
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