Jason Staebler lives on the Boardwalk and fronts for the local mob in Atlantic City. He is a dreamer who asks his brother David, a radio personality from Philadelphia, to help him build a paradise on a Pacific Island, which might be just another of his pie-in-the-sky schemes. Inevitably, complications begin to pile up.
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Classical in form, grave, prestige and contemplative.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemplativerelentless
- sparerichly built
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Cast
- Jack NicholsonDavid Staebler
- Bruce DernJason Staebler
- Ellen BurstynSally
- Julia Anne RobinsonJessica
- Scatman CrothersLewis
- Charles LaVineGrandfather
- John P. RyanSurtees
- Sully BoyarLebowitz
- Josh MostelFrank
- Arnold WilliamsRosko
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- Bob RafelsonDirector
- Jacob BrackmanWriter
- Bob RafelsonWriter
- László KovácsDirector of Photography
- John F. LinkEditor
- Bob RafelsonProducer
- Harold SchneiderProducer
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