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Actor: Henry Calvert, John Castellano, Luana Anders, Michael Chapman, Nancy AllenBrand: NICHOLSON,JACK
Primary Contributor: Nicholson, Jack
Primary Contributor: Quaid, Randy
DVD: 2 Sides, Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); Portuguese (Subtitled); Georgian (Subtitled); Chinese (Subtitled); Thai (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 1.85:1
Running Time: 104 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1999-12-14
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Sony Pictures
Movie Reviews of The Last Detail
Movie Review: On The Road
Summary: 5 Stars
Directed by Hal Ashby ("Shampoo") and released in 1973, "The Last Detail" is a near perfect little movie-- in spite of a thin plot-- that holds up well thirty-five years later. It is essentially a three person film. Two sailors, Jack Nicholson (Budduskey) and Otis Young (Mule) are assigned the task of escorting Randy Quaid (Meadows) from Norfolk to Massachusetts where he will begin his eight-year-prison term for stealing a mere forty dollars albeit from his commander's favorite charity.
The two older servicemen decide that they should introduce the younger man, who is only 18, to a little bit of life before he begins his sentence: sex, drugs and liquor, with with a stop also to see his mother. The movie is a fine vehicle for all three actors who give outstanding performances. This is Nicholson at his best, long before he got paunchy and kept on playing himself.
Nicholson and Young ultimately realize that they are as much a prisoner as Quaid as the goodtimes road trip with a lot of laughs along the way ends in a very sober place.
Good movie!
Summary of The Last Detail
No Description Available.Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: R
Release Date: 14-DEC-1999
Media Type: DVD
Overshadowed by his high-profile leads in such '70s landmarks as Five Easy Pieces, Chinatown, and One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, Jack Nicholson's remarkably complex turn in this raucous yet ultimately somber road movie also remains his most underrated. As the snarling, hedonistic, but emotionally lost Navy lifer Billy Budduskey, Nicholson teams with fellow sailor "Mule" (Otis Young) on a seemingly simple duty of escorting a naive thief (Randy Quaid) from the Norfolk naval base to the brig in Massachusetts. Though polar opposites--Mule is hard-nosed Navy, while the first image of Budduskey shows him asleep in a chair, tattered and tattooed, gripping a near-empty bottle of cheap wine--both sailors learn that the 18-year-old will lose eight years of his life for a petty theft, and agree to cram his lost years into one booze-, sex-, and drug-infested (lost) weekend. From bizarre religious ceremonies to drunken nights in New York brothels, the two sailors provide all the sins they can think of, while their charge, Meadows, appears to go along just to please his escorts. The older sailors are definitely having more fun, essentially projecting all of their own lost freedom onto Meadows. The young sailor's ultimate doom mirrors the daily prison lived by both Budduskey and Mule, and director Hal Ashby hangs a decisive air of bleakness and claustrophobia over screenwriter Robert Towne's profane humor. When the question of whether to let the poor teenager escape ultimately arrives for the two sailors, the final decision is relatively pointless: in or out of prison, all three men are trapped by the Establishment and their own lost free will. --Dave McCoy
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