Jesse, a small-time criminal, high-tails it to Los Angeles to rendezvous with a French exchange student. Stealing a car and accidentally killing a highway patrolman, he becomes the most wanted fugitive in L.A.
Acting
Gere's feral charisma holds the whole disaster together.
Cinematography
L.A. never looked this sleazy-gorgeous again.
Director
Jim McBride
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Godard famously hated this remake, calling it 'a pornographic film'—which McBride probably took as a compliment.
This bombed in 1983 but became a VHS cult object, arguably inventing the 'so bad it's sexy' canon that would later embrace Showgirls.
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