A prostitute and a drifter find themselves bound together as they make their way through the rural South, doing what they have to do to survive.
Acting
Field and Jones have zero chemistry—which somehow works perfectly.
Direction
Ritt finds poetry in truck stops and dirt roads.
Director
Martin Ritt
Sally Field
Amy Post
Tommy Lee Jones
Elmore Pratt
David Keith
Mason
M. Emmet Walsh
Arthur
Michael V. Gazzo
Tazio
Nell Carter
Waitress
Royce D. Applegate
The Father
Don 'Red' Barry
Pete
Billy Jayne
The Boy Thief
Brian Frishman
Bleitz
Dan Shor
Spivey
Barbara Babcock
Rickey's Mom
Alex Colon
Enrique
Lee de Broux
Red
Ralph Seymour
Gosler
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Martin Ritt's attempt at lighter material after 'Norma Rae'—audiences stayed away, and it vanished into VHS obscurity.
The film captures a specific post-1970s, pre-Reaganomics South where economic collapse made everyone a hustler.
US
