Post by mdorman

Anne and I have had a copy of this out from Netflix for, I'm not kidding you, three months. We finally got around to watching it last night.

To say that I'm glad I didn't grow up in a small town--I spent a fair amount of time in small-ish towns, but always as a transient outsider--is perhaps obvious.

It's got a lot of the flaws I anticipated, but that anticipation is at least partly informed by the existence of this movie--it isn't impossible to see how it would have been fresh and new, oh, you know, around the time I was born. So it's worth seeing, even if only as a historical document.

I must say, though, what the hell happened to Timothy Bottoms? Looking at his bio on imdb, I swear, it seems like this is the only movie he's done (perhaps other than Texasville) that was really worth doing. Weird.