Everyone loses in this offbeat counterculture comedy/drama written by Michael Critchon (under the pseudonym Michael Douglas). Robert F. Lyons is a Harvard law student who mules for theater director/dope dealer John Lithgow. He meets Berkeley beatnik Barbara Hershey on one run and falls in love...and gets her busted by crooked narc Charles Durning when he has her try to bring some drugs back to Cambridge. Incompetents Lithgow and Lyons try to exact revenge on Durning only to run afoul of Cuban Mafioso. It's an entertaining time-capsule of the early '70s with Lyons giving an exceptional performance. He's what THE PAPER CHASE'S James Hart would have been had he been an entrepreneurial stoner. Lithgow is terrific in an early role, trying to appear much more sinister than he is and Hershey is really beautiful in what amounts to a rather small role (despite top billing). With Joy Bang as Lithgow's not so helpful wife.
