Ah yes another movie about drug addicts. This movie is set in the Northwest US during 1971. It's a story about 4 friends who are addicts and get their stuff by robbing drugstores. They end up robbing them not by violent pistol holdups, but by usualy creating diversions while a friend sneaks behind a pharmacy counter to crack open drawers, or run into a hospital storage room to bust a cabinet with a crowbar.
The movie has a neat look and a neat story. It has to be the only movie about addicts that I have seen where the characters are neither glamorous nor do they look like they are festering with sores and pains and needle marks. I had to say though I was taken with the film, it has a neat story and has that American Beauty type ending (where the main character finaly makes it to redemption even if it is too late).
But it is a unique film and the movie has a look as if it was truly made in the 70's even though it wasn't. The movie starts off with Dillon being driven away in an ambulance as his voice over tells us about his life, and you feel that you know the story, but you don't as you watch the movie unfold and then realise at the end that the reason he is in the ambulance is not what you think is the obvious answer you thought of at the begining of the film.
Not the the best drug addict movie I have seen (I'd give that to the Canadian film 'H') but a very good film none the less.
Rating 7 1/2 out of 10
The movie has a neat look and a neat story. It has to be the only movie about addicts that I have seen where the characters are neither glamorous nor do they look like they are festering with sores and pains and needle marks. I had to say though I was taken with the film, it has a neat story and has that American Beauty type ending (where the main character finaly makes it to redemption even if it is too late).
But it is a unique film and the movie has a look as if it was truly made in the 70's even though it wasn't. The movie starts off with Dillon being driven away in an ambulance as his voice over tells us about his life, and you feel that you know the story, but you don't as you watch the movie unfold and then realise at the end that the reason he is in the ambulance is not what you think is the obvious answer you thought of at the begining of the film.
Not the the best drug addict movie I have seen (I'd give that to the Canadian film 'H') but a very good film none the less.
Rating 7 1/2 out of 10