This movie is quite well acted with eighteen year old, yes I looked it up, Jody Foster doing another great acting performance as the gorgeous and intuitive Donna. She finds the Carnival dunk tank performer Frankie, played by Gary Busey in one of his finest roll's, funny and charming and they become an item, as they say. In another great performance Robby Robertson, I'm getting repetitive I know, plays the wily Carnival General Manager Patch.
I liked they way the movie was contiguous with no flashing back or springing forward in time. It was just the life of those characters as they travel the Country with the many great character actors working in the Great American Carnival while being visited upon by life and profound misfortune. I remember trying to get a date to go and see this movie when it came out so it is nice to finally see Carny all these years latter. It is at least a near great film that left me wondering which character is the films moral compass and actually wanting more Carny.
Review of Carny
