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Hans van Tongeren | ... | Rien |
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Toon Agterberg | ... | Eef |
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Maarten Spanjer | ... | Hans |
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Marianne Boyer | ... | Maya |
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Peter Tuinman | ... | Jaap |
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Saskia van Basten-Batenburg | ... | Truus (as Saskia Ten Batenburg) |
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Yvonne Valkenburg | ... | Annette |
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Ab Abspoel | ... | Rien's vader (as Albert Abspoel) |
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Rudi Falkenhagen | ... | Hans' Vader |
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Ben Aerden | ... | Oude Homosexueel |
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Kitty Courbois | ... | Doctor |
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Margot Keune | ... | Meisje op bromfiets |
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Jonna Koster | ... | Gerrit's vrouw |
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Three young Dutch amateur dirt bike motorcycle racers each fall in love with a young woman who, with her brother, works at a concession stand at the races. Everyone is looking for a better life. The young woman wants out of the business and away from her brother. The motocross racers want to make their marks as professional racers, like their hero, played by Rutger Hauer. Written by Mark Logan <marklo@west.sun.com>
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Country:
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DutchRelease Date:
28 February 1980 (Netherlands) See more »Also Known As:
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Written by Ton Scherpenzeel
Performed by Ton Scherpenzeel
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Paul Verhoeven: [religious imagery] In one scene, a character is shot from a low angle, with a light bulb creating a halo around his head (c.f. Flesh+Blood (1985)). See more »Goofs
When Fientje confronts the journalist, she pulls her big blue Chevy right in front of the journalists sports car from his left side. He even leans on her car just a few feet away from his car while talking to her. Moments later, they both get into his sports car and he drives forward and to the left, exactly where her car should be. See more »Alternate Versions
A two second shot of hard-core oral sex, excised from many video releases of the film, is included on the MGM DVD as well as the Pioneer LaserDisc version. See more »Soundtracks
Last Blue Of ChartresWritten by Ton Scherpenzeel
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The best thing about this movie is its extremely casual treatment of sex and male nudity - casual even for a European movie, and I've seen lots of them - just as if the male body and human sexuality were normal, natural and an integral part of everyday life.
Oh, wait... THEY ARE!! So what makes this movie remarkable is that it treats something that is about as natural as anything can be as if it really IS natural!
Isn't this a crazy world? that such a simple, straightforward concept can be still so controversial more than 30 years later that we have people expressing their horror and outrage in online reviews of this movie? It's amazing.
As if no man in real life ever gets an erection; as if no woman ever idly plays with a man's penis as if it were a flower; as if young straight men never compare the size of their penises. ALL of that happens in real life, but in a movie? HA! It should, but it doesn't.
So the way the male body and sex are treated in this movie is much more extraordinary and refreshing than it ought to be. Otherwise, this movie is okay but a little tiresome.
The focus on motorcycle racing is tedious. The acting is okay but not great (the movie's only two experienced actors - Jeroen Krabbé and Rutger Hauer - overact to such a clownish extent that it's embarrassing; but maybe that's just how Dutch actors are taught to act, because the novices are a lot more realistic).
The story is not particularly engaging and not at all believable (particularly one character's violent coming-out). And the woman who drives all the men crazy looks to me like a Cabbage Patch Kid with WAY too much makeup on - not sexy *AT ALL* - but then I'm gay, so I'm often dumbfounded by what turns straight men on.