Asad Almond A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

Benas Mcloughlin Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

Deanna There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

Winifred The movie is made so realistic it has a lot of that WoW feeling at the right moments and never tooo over the top. the suspense is done so well and the emotion is felt. Very well put together with the music and all.

MarieGabrielle Shirley Knight as Natalie Ravenna, an overwhelmed and bored suburban NY housewife who decides, upon realizing she is pregnant, that this is all there is. A mind-numbing stagnant life. She decides to hit the road, aimlessly in her station wagon to think, to figure things out.En route she picks up brain-damaged former football player James Cann. He is functional, but naive about life in a sad way. He isn't really aware of the inhumanity man in general is capable of. We see a pastiche of American rural landscape, small towns, parades (around the Fourth of July) and the vastness of landscape as Natalie drives through stark open plains, parts of Kansas, Nebraska, etc. She figures she will stop in California as it is as "far as she can go".Robert Duvall a local sheriff pulls her over for speeding in Kansas and for some reason she has to pay the speeding fine immediately or be held in jail. A rather silly premise, but anyway. Duvall is interested in her, she decides to put on some makeup and at least have a night out.Duvall lives in an airstream trailer with a rather manic and annoying young daughter. When he realizes he isn't going to get anything from Natalie (she refuses to stay the night), he eventually becomes violent.Without spoiling the ending for the audience, basically this film is interesting in parts, a bit disturbing (we see the sadness and randomness in life, as in when Cann tries to work at an animal farm/petting zoo. The animals, chicks, rabbits, goats, lambs etc. are abused, and he decides to save them).The story is realistic in that it reflects a segment of life everyone has dealt with. The emotions Ms. Knight conveys, even by not speaking are apparent. She feels sad for Cann, but realizes her future lies in conformity. Recommended. 8/10.

LeaBlacks_Balls Shirley Knight plays Sara Ravenna, a Long Island housewife who runs away from her marriage when she discovers she is pregnant. She plans to drive into America's heartland and start anew. Along the way she picks up a friendly hitchhiker (James Caan) who calls himself 'Killer.' Soon she discovers that the good natured 'Killer' is actually brain damaged, and by picking him up she has unknowingly taken on a huge responsibility. The two of them drive all the way to Nebraska, where Sara gets Killer a job helping out at a roadside reptile farm. It is here that Sara meets Gordon, a local cop, and soon things go horribly wrong for everyone.This is a powerful drama about people disconnected from society, alienated by the choices they make or by the limits imposed on them by others. Even with such a low budget and a very freewheeling attitude, the film is able to capture everything that needs to be said through these clearly defined characters. Shirley Knight has a complex, diverging role and there are moments of some awe-inspiring acting by her. One of my favorites is when she is on the telephone calling her home to her worried husband the first time. It is such a tense scene on both ends, and in every small gesture and inflection of a word, so much about her is spoken with so little. Then comes in the character of 'Killer' played by James Caan. This character is unlike any I've ever seen him play, and he performs wonderfully. It's one of his best performances as he is very restrained and moving.The way Coppola develops the characters by using short, dream-like flashbacks is very clever, adding a fragmented kind of view onto it all. The quick flashbacks that are graphic and self-contained contrast well with the longer shots in some crucial scenes. Also, because this film was shot on location all over the Eastern U.S., it offers an interesting, authentic look at America in the late 1960's.I haven't seen many other films starring Ms. Knight, I'm only familiar with her more recent work on television, usually playing a nagging mother in law or a dotty old woman. It was great seeing her so young, beautiful, and so wonderfully subtle in this movie. It's also kind of a shame that James Caan went on to be typecast as the 'tough guy' for the rest of his career, because this film evidenced that he is capable of so much more than that.

Jeannot At least one kind. Very human and moving. Not out to teach a lesson or anything like that. All principals are effective. I saw the movie years ago and still remember it (but can't remember the Morgan Fairchild role).And a nice slice of American life.

RNMorton Newly-pregnant Knight bolts from husband for non-specific reasons which are apparently self-related. On the road, she becomes entangled with Caan, brain-damaged former football star, and Duvall, wacky but abusive cop. The type of movie that could only have been spawned in the 60's. Worth a look for its non-formula plot and for early performances by future stars.Disappointing resolution does not take away too much from rest of flick, which shows an interesting slice of life.