WHO'LL STOP THE RAIN? (1978) ¢ ¢ ¢
D: Karel Reisz
Nick Nolte, Tuesday Weld, Michael Moriarty,
Anthony Zerbe, Richard Masur, Ray Sharkey,
Charles Haid, Gail Strickland, David Opatoshu
Three desperate characters, two of them rank amateurs, get in over their heads when they try to move two kilos of uncut heroin. This can't go well for anybody, and guess what? It doesn't. Robert Stone cowrote the script from his novel "Dog Soldiers", a morally shifty reflection on the American psyche in the last years of the Vietnam War. Viewers who are up on their counterculture history can watch for the references to Ken Kesey and Neal Cassady. The ending echoes "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre".
