Thursday, June 10, 2010

The Grasshopper (1969)

Directed by Jerry Paris
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Warner Archive Collection)

Bisset leaves her small Canadian town at the age of 19 to move in with her boyfriend in Los Angeles. Her car breaks down and she hitches a ride with a bad stand-up comic. He convinces her to stay with him in Vegas for a few days, where she schmoozes with his buddies at a party. She eventually makes it to LA but gets bored with "domesticity" and goes back to Vegas. She becomes a showgirl, marries Jim Brown, falls in love with a musician, becomes a hooker and skywrites obscenities while smoking a joint. Interesting but dated story of lost innocence.



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