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Director:
Jeremy Kagan
Writers:
Roger L. Simon (novel)
Roger L. Simon (screenplay)
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Release Date:
6 October 1978 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy | Mystery | Thriller more
Tagline:
Richard Dreyfuss as Moses Wine, private detective. So go figure... more
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Awards:
1 nomination more
User Comments:
The best post-hip film ever produced more (9 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Richard Dreyfuss ... Moses Wine
Susan Anspach ... Lila Shay

Bonnie Bedelia ... Suzanne

John Lithgow ... Sam Sebastian
Ofelia Medina ... Alora

Nicolas Coster ... Spitzer

F. Murray Abraham ... Eppis
Fritz Weaver ... Oscar Procari, Sr.
Jorge Cervera Jr. ... Jorge
Michael Hershewe ... Jacob
Rita Karin ... Aunt Sonya

Ron Rifkin ... Randy
Larry Bishop ... Wilson
Andrew Bloch ... Michael Linker
Sidney Clute ... Mr. Johnson
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Additional Details

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Runtime:
108 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Westrex Recording System)
Certification:
UK:15 (video rating: 1989) | Sweden:15 | UK:A (original rating) | USA:PG (certificate #25324) | Australia:PG | Finland:K-16 | Norway:15 | Iceland:16
Company:
Universal Pictures more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
'Richard Dreyfus' broke his wrist just before shooting was to begin. Rather than delay shooting they worked his cast into the script. more
Quotes:
Moses Wine: Bakunin? Bakunin was a terrorist monster. You are not an authority on Bakunin just because you used to date every terrorist in Soviet Russia, that does not make you an authority. more
Movie Connections:
References Francis (1950) more
Soundtrack:
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9 out of 10 people found the following comment useful.
The best post-hip film ever produced, 7 June 2005
9/10
Author: berrys1178 from United States

The Big Fix is a mystery that does not answer every question that it raises, but it nails the Zeitgeist of the late 60's from a vantage point 10 years later. I have only seen it once, when it first came out and I have looked for it ever since.

The story is slow to develop with Moses Wine (Dreyfuss) having trouble with seemingly every aspect of his life. We learn that he feels displaced in time, and cannot get past the radical time in his life. I and many others have had those same feelings in the 35+ years since.

The sense of confusion and struggle fits exactly the feelings many of us experienced at the time. Taught to respect the police by our Greatest Generation parents, we often found that we were at the top of the police list of suspects for anything from subversion to bad manners and bad dress. The sense of alienation that I felt at the time permeates the viewing. I may have read too much of myself into it; if so, The Big Fix evoked it from my own life.

Best scenes without spoiling the story:

Leon Redbone's "I Wanna Be Seduced" while Moses gets ready for a date with Lila Shay (Anspach).

Moses at the TV station reviewing scenes of past demonstrations; the images are shown projected on his face. No real detail is visible except the tears on his cheeks. Powerful.

The reunion of old friends as they dance around the swimming pool of the house that was built by selling out the old radical values.

Finally, a sense of something incomplete at the end. The mystery solved, but every question not answered. How true to life!

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