Rating: PG
Genre:
Comedy
Release Date: 05/22/2007
SubTitles: English/French/Espanol
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD1
Run Time: 93 Minutes
Flags: Questionable for Children, Adult Language
Distributor/Studio: Warner Home Video
In this counter-culture
caper comedy, directed by
Alan Myerson (whose work with
The Committee and
Second City gives the film a quirky
sketch comedy freshness),
Donald Sutherland plays
Veldini, a sad-eyed demolition-derby driver, serving time for larceny. He also possesses a millennial desire to wreck every car manufactured in the United States from 1940 to 1960. After being released from jail,
Veldini hatches a scheme to restore an old U.S. World War II amphibian plane to escape conventional society and fly off to a new nonconformist world. Searching for spare parts to complete the restoration,
Veldini realizes that a particular electrical circuit is available only at the local Navy base, and he decides to rob the base to steal the circuit. Involved in the caper with him is
Iris (
Jane Fonda in a burlesque of her performance in
Klute) as a 100-dollar-a-night call girl who is sick of being humiliated;
Veldini's kid brother (
John Savage); and
Eagle (
Peter Boyle), a schizophrenic out-of-work circus performer. Standing in the way of
Veldini's scheme is
Frank Veldini (
Howard Hesseman), his older brother and a politically ambitious district attorney.
~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide
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