In November of 1963, four Marine buddies, just out of boot camp, spend their two-day pass and $50 a head setting up a dog fight-- everyone brings the ugliest girl he can find to a party, and the one who is ugliest wins her date the pot. River Phoenix brings Lili Taylor (she gained 12 pounds for the role and wears padding). Somehow they actually connect.
It's a moment in history where the times they were a-changing, and no one quite knows what is happening, nor what is going to happen. Large swaths are filmed on the streets and interiors of San Francisco at night, showing bits and pieces that still survived when the film was shot, adding to the air of a tired and sick society about to undergo massive changes, while two individual fumble their ways into little truths in the face of broad assertions. It's a charming movie that pays careful attention to details of dress and the fragmenting mores of the day.
It's a moment in history where the times they were a-changing, and no one quite knows what is happening, nor what is going to happen. Large swaths are filmed on the streets and interiors of San Francisco at night, showing bits and pieces that still survived when the film was shot, adding to the air of a tired and sick society about to undergo massive changes, while two individual fumble their ways into little truths in the face of broad assertions. It's a charming movie that pays careful attention to details of dress and the fragmenting mores of the day.