This film is an abomination.
The credits started I thought "this is okay" but it's sunk within the first two minutes with Tony Perkins (then 40) as a young cowboy and Beau Bridges and Blythe Danner (both around 30) as his friends. They needed to be the same age and played by young actors.
I think the rationale was "well they're playing older later in the film let's get older actors" but there's 50 minutes of them being young.
Perkins is spectacularly bad. Danner is sweet and lovely and might've succeeded in another film but goes down with the ship. Beau Bridges is too chunky. He's not as bad as Perkins but isn't great either.
Susan Sarandon's part - quite big in the book - is blink and miss.
The whole thing feels fake. The friendship. The sex. The mood.
It's awful.
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