Three bitter brothers, one deadbeat dad, and a wheelchair road trip to French hell.
A trio of stepbrothers accompany their paralysed father on a jaunt to Normandy where the old boy saw combat and romantic action during the war.
Acting
William Hickey's gloriously unhinged patriarch performance.
Direction
Rockwell's raw, unpolished vérité style before bigger budgets.
Director
Alexandre Rockwell
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Samuel Fuller, who plays the father, was a legendary B-movie director himself—Rockwell casting his own cinematic father figure.
Shot on scraps of leftover film stock from other productions, giving it that grimy, desperate texture that mirrors the family's broke dysfunction.
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