Famed as Robert Altman's worst movie though there are a few contenders to that throne. It's his attempt at a teen film, and he definitely did an Altman version - there's the overlapping dialogue, improvised feel, ramshackle nature and so on.
The plot focuses on the antics of two troublesome friends, a little like Trapper and Hawkeye in MASH only it's hard to differentiate these two. The actors are fine just lacking a little in individuality. They spend a lot of time pulling pranks including tormenting a young Jon Cryer. Cynthia Nixon is in this too. And Dennis Hopper, Paul Dooley and Jane Curtin. Once you get in its rhythm it's fine, it's just weird that it exists.
This was shot in 1983 but not released until 1987 or something. I get why but why did they hire Altman to make it?
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