Bob Rafelson and Jack Nicholson's next film after Five Easy Pieces was another downbeat character piece, and the latter's performance as a depressive talk-radio DJ is one of his most interior and restrained; it's Bruce Dern and Ellen Burstyn who are the wild-eyed dreamers and dangerous self-deceivers of the piece.
The faded glamour of off-season Atlantic City provides a melancholy backdrop.
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