A smart-mouthed junkie and a former hairdresser spends his days looking for just "one more fix".
Acting
Segal's motor-mouth desperation is criminally underrated.
Direction
Passer finds slapstick in the shooting gallery.
Writing
Dialogue so sharp it draws blood then asks for a light.
Director
Ivan Passer
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was the only American film by Czech New Wave director Ivan Passer, who co-wrote Loves of a Blonde with Miloš Forman.
Released between Mean Streets and The Godfather Part II, De Niro's tiny role as a dying junkie got buried—though his twitchy physicality here previewed Johnny Boy and Travis Bickle.
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