The casting of a young Jack Nicholson is very much against type and the opening monologue is impressive. Lesser actors would had been blown off course from there.
Bruce Dern is also cast against type, playing the loud, showy role as his conman older brother with big dreams and a real estate scam which he ropes Nicholson in.
Nicholson being the glass half empty kind of guy is rather negative about it all. Not helped that he is also a depressive.
Tagging along with Dern are an older and younger lady who help him hustle. Scatman Crothers plays a type of Mr Big that Dern has seemingly upset.
The setting is Atlantic City, before it got knocked down and redeveloped with brash casinos. In that sense we are seeing a decaying city from the past.
The acting is top notch, the story has some surreal elements and part of it is hard to follow.
What exactly is going on with the women that Dern has, why did one of them think she was now over the hill and burn all her clothes and then passed the baton to the younger one.
It was as if the film was badly edited and scenes were cut out so you cannot follow the story properly.
Bruce Dern is also cast against type, playing the loud, showy role as his conman older brother with big dreams and a real estate scam which he ropes Nicholson in.
Nicholson being the glass half empty kind of guy is rather negative about it all. Not helped that he is also a depressive.
Tagging along with Dern are an older and younger lady who help him hustle. Scatman Crothers plays a type of Mr Big that Dern has seemingly upset.
The setting is Atlantic City, before it got knocked down and redeveloped with brash casinos. In that sense we are seeing a decaying city from the past.
The acting is top notch, the story has some surreal elements and part of it is hard to follow.
What exactly is going on with the women that Dern has, why did one of them think she was now over the hill and burn all her clothes and then passed the baton to the younger one.
It was as if the film was badly edited and scenes were cut out so you cannot follow the story properly.