Acting
Bridges' twitchy, vulnerable performance before he became 'that Bridges.'
Direction
Cates lets scenes breathe uncomfortably long.
Director
Gilbert Cates
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in 18 days on a $400k budget. Cates later became famous for producing the Academy Awards telecast 14 times—basically the opposite of this raw indie energy.
Released right between One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and the deinstitutionalization movement—caught between romanticizing asylums and dismantling them.
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