Who'll Stop The Rain
by Karel Reisz
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Actor: Anthony Zerbe, Michael Moriarty, Nick Nolte, Richard Masur, Tuesday WeldDirector: Karel Reisz
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; Spanish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 126 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-07-10
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
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Movie Review: One the the Best Fims of the Decade
Summary: 5 Stars
John Converse (Michael Moriarity) plays a morally beaten combat photographer whose idea of a bold, life-changing move is to smuggle a highly profitable quantity of heroin back into the States. Naive and over-his-head,Converse enlists the help of his much more streetwise friend, merchant marine Ray Hicks, played brilliantly by Nick Nolte.
The heroin makes it to Oakland and things go wrong as Converses unknowing wife (Tuesday Weld) and Hicks are pursued by a corrupt federal agent from an unnamed agency (FBI,CIA,DEA,BNDD??) and his two fumbling and amoral goons played greatly by vet actor Richard Masur and the late Ray Sharkey.
Frustrated by the imeptness of Converse but protective of Converse neurotic and clueless wife, Hicks is forced to go on the road from the Bay Area to Los Angeles, trying to pick up some money from the heroin on the way.
I can't think of any film that depicts the collapse of values of once good people that occured in the 70's via drugs and Viet Nam burnout. The idea that a reputable photog and sweet wife would consider selling the worst of drugs is horrible enough- that Weld and Moriarity can play these lost souls with believabilty makes the viewer think they are looking into
human and spiritual tragedy. You may find yourself rooting for Noltes Ray Hicks in this movie as he is the only one capable of taking charge in a chaotic situation, protecting the fragile wife of his befuddled friend, even at the same time protecting a misguided stake in the sale of an addictive and repulsive drug.
Excellent cinematography and great soundtrack featuring Don McLean, Hank Snow and CCR.............
Summary of Who'll Stop The Rain
Two-time Oscar(r) nominee* Nick Nolte is like a champion achieving cinematic immortality [in this] knockout adventure destined to become a classic (Washington Post). Co-staring Tuesday Weld (Falling Down) and Michael Moriarty (TV's Law & Order ), this 'savage, paranoid thriller (Newsweek) is acted brilliantly and cast perfectly [and] one of the year's best (The New York Times)! Fresh from the bloody battlefields of Vietnam, Ray Hicks (Nolte) does hisfriend Converse a favor, smuggling a stash of heroin back to the States. But when Ray goes to deliver the drugs, he and Converse's wife, Marge (Weld), are ambushed and barely escape with their lives!Suddenly on the run from two ruthless thugs and a murderous cop, the unlikely pair must find a way to get along and survive a perilous double-cross in this gripping nightmare adventure (New West) that quickly becomes a harrowing journey into hell (Newsweek). *1997: Actor, Affliction; 1991: Actor, The Prince of TidesFollowing the success of The Deep, in which he costarred with Jacqueline Bisset's wet T-shirt, Nick Nolte gummed up the star-maker machinery by recasting himself from sex symbol to commanding character actor with this unrelentingly bleak, fatalistic post-Vietnam thriller based on Robert Stone's book Dog Soldiers. Nolte gives a ferocious performance as Ray Hicks, a Nietzche-reading merchant marine who reluctantly agrees to carry into the United States two keys of heroin for his friend, John Converse (a superb Michael Moriarty), a disillusioned journalist. Ray and John are "way out of their league," as a corrupt narcotics agent (Anthony Zerbe) sends two goons (the late, great Ray Sharkey, and Richard Masur, cast against type as a scuzzy psychopath) to hijack the heroin. Ray is forced to go on the run with John's anguished, pill-popping wife (Tuesday Weld in one of her best performances). A buried treasure, this is the kind of intense and uncompromising film that Nolte appeared in later in his notoriously roller-coaster career. --Donald Liebenson
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