Nicky is on the run from the mob, and he turns to old pal Mikey for help.Nicky is on the run from the mob, and he turns to old pal Mikey for help.Nicky is on the run from the mob, and he turns to old pal Mikey for help.
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Friends, it ain't all that. It's watchable. Reasonably entertaining. Often feels like it's gonna go somewhere profound, though never does. Has lovely little moments. But it meanders, is unnecessarily technically inept (it was a major studio picture with people like the great Lucien Ballard involved) and somehow never has the courage of it's convictions. Cassavetes' similar film from the same period, 'The Killing Of a Chinese Bookie', is far better.
I don't dislike the film. It has a great 70's texture and plenty of lovable eccentricities, such as the brief musical 'score'( anyway you look at it, it doesn't work, but I sort of enjoyed it for that reason). There's one scene I really liked: Cassavetes walks into an all-night candy store (as a Brit, the concept of that alone excites me) and tries to buy ice-cream. Nothing worth really talking about happens, but it's quirky and entertaining. It's that kind of movie.
- LewisJForce
- Dec 6, 2005
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- TriviaElaine May shot 1,400,000 feet of film for the production. A two-hour feature is just under 11,000 feet. This was nearly three times the amount of film that was shot for Gone with the Wind (1939).
- GoofsIn the hotel room when Nicky is on the bed moving, a crew member can be seen reflected in the mirror in a crouching position.
- Quotes
Mikey: [they have just climbed over the wall of a cemetery] I'm exhausted really, Nick. This is foolish. Nick, please. It's just foolish.
Nicky: Foolish?
Mikey: Frankly, I think it's ridiculous.
Nicky: You didn't like my mother?
Mikey: I loved your mother. I thought she was a wonderful woman.
Nicky: Why is it ridiculous to visit her grave?
Mikey: Because it's one o'clock in the morning.
Nicky: That makes it nicer.
Mikey: It doesn't make it anything, Nick. A grave is a grave. There's not a religion in the world that says a person's soul is buried with them in their grave. It's not your mother in there.
Nicky: You don't believe in any of that stuff?
Mikey: No.
Nicky: You don't believe there's anything after you die?
Mikey: Er, me personally, no. I believe you die and that's it.
Nicky: That doesn't scare you? To think that one day'll you die. You'll be over. You won't be anything, you won't know anything. Be nothing.
Mikey: Look, Nick, if you wanna visit your mother, let's visit your mother because this conversation is stupid.
Nicky: It isn't stupid. It's interesting - if you're gonna die.
Mikey: Well, I'm not gonna die so I think it's stupid.
Nicky: Yeah, well you are some day.
Mikey: Look, Nick...
Nicky: You're gonna die some day.
Mikey: I'm not gonna stand here at one o'clock in the morning and discuss what's gonna happen to me when I die. I mean, that mishegoss I leave to the Catholics.
[he walks off]
Nicky: Aren't you gonna die some day? Aren't you gonna die some day? Aren't you gonna die some day? I just wanna know, are you gonna die some day?
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Words and Music by John Strauss
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- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA(the Essex Hotel at 13th and Filbert Streets depicting the film's Hotel Royale)
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- $4,300,000 (estimated)
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