Breathless

In director Jim McBride's Americanized updating of the 1958 French thriller, Richard Gere stars as Jesse Lujack, a small-time hood who gets deeper and deeper into a violent Las Vegas-to-Los Angeles crime spree, and Valérie Kaprisky plays Monica, the gorgeous French art student whom the hot-rodding, Jerry Lee Lewis-loving Jesse won't leave town without. With Art Metrano, John P. Ryan. 100 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack: English.