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Warner Bros. Pictures
details
Release Date: Jan 1, 1989
Running Time: 100 mins.
Country Of Origin: United States
synopsis
Gritty drama, set in the early 1970s, about a band of superstitious, drug-addled misfits who live by their wits and rob drugstores.
cast + crew
Director
Bob Hughes
Dianne
Rick
Nadine
Druggist
David
Gentry
Cop
Bob's Mother
Trousinski
screenplay
screenplay
Novel as Source Material
Screenplay
reviews
December 8, 2000
Casting teen dream Matt Dillon as a junkie going straight sounds like one of those noxious notions dreamed up by a politician for yet another Just Say No campaign. Admirable causes usually make for deadly moviemaking. The film's beginning suggests this is no exception. Dillon's Bob Hughes, shot by a kid pusher, is near death. Bob narrates the story in a long flashback, waxing poetic about his days of robbing drugstores for a fix. Hearing Dillon's thick tongue trip over such twisters as "the rosy…
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