Directed by Karel ReiszMy rating: 3 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, MGM)
Exceptionally depressing story which follows 2 kilos of heroin from Vietnam to California to Arizona. Everyone who comes into contact with the drugs undergoes a transformation: Michael Moriarty, the timid photographer who starts the operation only to see himself beat up by thugs and the police, his friend Nick Nolte, whom he hires to smuggle the drugs, once a hippie now a Marine Corp-trained killer, and his wife Tuesday Weld, who begins as a mother working in a San Francisco bookstore only to become a heroin addict. Then there are the police officers trailing them, crooked ex-junkies trying to get a piece of the action. A memorable finale takes place at a remote Arizona mountain rigged up with strobe lights and speakers blaring CCR. Superb performances all around, but a real downer watching all of these people fall so low for drugs.
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