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and Sue Lyon.

Cast

* Sue Lyon as Lynn *Jennifer Ashley as Jean *

as Tony * J. J. Johnston as Butch *

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as Chris *

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as Phil * Audrie J. Neenan as Irate Lady *Don DePollo as Pizza Man * Steven Kampmann as Irate Man

Production

According to Joe Mantegna,

David Mamet David Alan Mamet (; born November 30, 1947) is an American playwright, filmmaker, and author. He won a Pulitzer Prize and received Tony nominations for his plays ''Glengarry Glen Ross'' (1984) and '' Speed-the-Plow'' (1988). He first gained cri ...

wrote some scenes for the film which never made it in the final product and was paid $200 for his work. The film was shot in Chicago.

Reception

Richard Christiansen of the ''

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'' awarded the film one star and wrote, "But the movie as a whole is so loosely organized and so quirkily edited that none of it makes much sense; and its ending, with a joke involving the late Mayor

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, is sadly outdated." Roger Ebert awarded the film one and a half stars.

References

External links

* {{IMDb title, 0199101 1970s English-language films