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10 January 1977 (USA) morePlot:
A sensitive but confused teenager feels pressure on him from all directions and turns to drugs, which causes problems for him in school and at home. | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
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This is exactly what drugs do more (13 total)Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Ben Gazzara | ... | George Werner | |
| Eileen Brennan | ... | Carol Werner | |
| Robby Benson | ... | Richie Werner | |
| Lance Kerwin | ... | Russell Werner | |
| Shirley O'Hara | ... | Mrs. Norton | |
| Jennifer Rhodes | ... | Elaine | |
| John Zaremba | ... | Mr. Norlon | |
| Jesse Emmett | ... | Eddie | |
| Charles Fleischer | ... | Brick | |
| Clint Howard | ... | Peanuts | |
| Harry Gold | ... | Mark | |
| Cindy Eilbacher | ... | Sheila | |
| Susan Pratt | ... | Janie | |
| Sean Roche | ... | Pat | |
| John Friedrich | ... | Kurt |
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Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USAFun Stuff
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Richie Werner: [Richie has taken 'reds' to confront his father about his intervention of going to the police... George has retreated to the basement] YOU! Did you tell those cops I use dope, huh? HUH?Carol Werner: [Richie throws bucket from basement steps in his father's direction] Richie, stop it!
Richie Werner: I asked you a question! I want an answer, huh?
[picks up an awl and feigns jabs at George]
Richie Werner: Did you tell those cops I use dope? You answer me!
Richie Werner: [George reaches behind himself to a pistol in his toolbox] HUH? I got you now, you answer me!
Richie Werner: [George produces gun and aims it at Richie] A gun! Look at this, he's got a gun! Look at that! God! Shoot me!
Carol Werner: [hysterical] STOP IT!
Richie Werner: Come on, use it! USE IT USE IT! SHOOT ME!
Carol Werner: [screaming... George cocks the gun's hammer] RICHIE, STOP IT!
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Death of Richie could be the greatest drug movie ever made. Robbie Benson turns in an Oscar caliber performance as Richie and the scene where his trip-out room gets busted is destined to go down in movie history as one of the finest film sequences ever.