Screened in tribute to Robert Towne (1934 - 2024)
“Nicholson’s cigar-chomping, profanity-spouting grunt is one of the greatest incarnations of stunted machismo onscreen...brilliantly complemented by Quaid’s picture-perfect awkwardness and Young’s bracing cynicism.”
Jack Nicholson and Otis Young star as navy men "Bad Ass" Buddusky and "Mule" Mulhall, who are ordered to escort young offender Larry Meadows (Randy Quaid) across country and deliver him to prison. But when they discover the triviality of Meadows’ crime and its draconian sentence, the pair decide to show the inexperienced Meadows one last good time along the way… Hal Ashby directs from Robert Townes' infamously foul-mouthed screenplay, resulting in a New Hollywood classic.
