Two kids steal their future and run like hell toward California—childhood's last great escape.
Howzer Cassel and his sister Deborah, feel like run-always long before they one day, at the ages of 12 and 14, scrape up enough money and actually flee to California. "Howzer" was shown at the US Film Festival and at the New American Director Series at the Whitney Museum in New York City.
Acting
Non-professional kids carry the whole damn thing.
Direction
Ken Luber's 1973 Whitney Museum breakout—scrappy and sincere.
Director
Ken Luber
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Screened at the 1973 US Film Festival (pre-Sundance) and Whitney Museum's New American Director Series—this was legit indie cinema before 'indie' meant anything.
Virgil Frye (Joe Day) is father to Soleil Moon Frye—yes, Punky Brewster's dad was in this. Hollywood lineage is weird.
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