Warner Bros.
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola
My rating: 3 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Warner Archive Collection)
Shirley Knight leaves her husband one morning after finding out she is pregnant. On the road to nowhere, she picks up hitchhiker James Caan. Slowly we learn that Caan is a former football player with a head injury that has made him a simpleton. She doesn't have the heart to ditch him, though she tries several times. They end up in Nebraska where she meets police officer Robert Duvall, who has got some issues of his own. Shirley's character is repulsively selfish and by the time she realizes what she really wants it is too late. James Caan is about the only likeable person here. It's a melodrama no matter how you look at it, though in the hands of Coppola it does become something more than the usual tear-jerker.
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