Country: USA
Year: 1987
Duration: 81'
Jack Jericho lives in New York and teaches baseball at school. Although he is attracted by the many young women he meets, he doesn't get anywhere with any of them. The only one who is interested in him is Randy Jensen, a museum guide who has to deal with an alcoholic father and with a debt owed to a medium-caliber boss. The criminal offers to call off the debt if she goes with a gangster who has set his eye on her, but the girl confides in Jack in the hopes of finding another way out. Their only alternative is to gamble.
Biography
film director
James Toback
James Toback was born in 1946. He graduated from Harvard University and taught at the City College of New York. He worked as a reporter for magazines such as "Esquire", "Harpers", "Dissent", and "Commentary". In 1974 he debuted as a feature film screenwriter with The Gambler, directed by Karel Reisz. He won an Oscar nomination in 1991 for his screenplay for Bugsy, directed by Warren Beatty. His first film as a director was Fingers, starring Harvey Keitel. His documentary, The Big Bang, won him an Oscar in 1989.
FILMOGRAFIA
Fingers (Rapsodia per un killer, 1978), Love and Money (Per amore e per denaro, 1982), Exposed (Star's Lovers, 1983), The Pick-Up Artist (Ehi ci stai? , 1987), The Big Bang (doc., 1989), Two Girls and a Guy (1997), Black and White (id., 2000), Love in Paris (1999), Harvard Man (2001).
Cast
& Credits
Regia, soggetto e sceneggiatura: James Toback.
Director of photography: Gordon Willis.
Art director: Paul Sylbert.
Costume designer: Colleen Atwood.
Editor: David Bretherton, Angelo Corrao.
Sound: Norval D. Crutcher.
Music: Georges Delerue.
Cast and characters: Molly Ringwald (Randy Jensen), Robert Downey, Jr. (Jack Jericho), Dennis Hopper (Flash), Danny Aiello (Phil), Mildred Dunnock (Nellie), Harvey Keitel (Alonzo).
Production company: David Leigh MacLeod per 20th Century Fox/Amercent Films.
Italian distribution: 20th Century Fox.
Director of photography: Gordon Willis.
Art director: Paul Sylbert.
Costume designer: Colleen Atwood.
Editor: David Bretherton, Angelo Corrao.
Sound: Norval D. Crutcher.
Music: Georges Delerue.
Cast and characters: Molly Ringwald (Randy Jensen), Robert Downey, Jr. (Jack Jericho), Dennis Hopper (Flash), Danny Aiello (Phil), Mildred Dunnock (Nellie), Harvey Keitel (Alonzo).
Production company: David Leigh MacLeod per 20th Century Fox/Amercent Films.
Italian distribution: 20th Century Fox.