Summary:
Jonathan Demme's breakthrough movie featured the shaggy energy and affection for marginal American eccentrics that marked his earlier Citizens Band (1977) and such later films as Something Wild (1986) and Married to the Mob (1988). Melvin Dummar (Paul LeMat) is a barely-getting-by Nevada milkman. One day in the early 1970s, while driving down a lonely highway, Melvin pick... Full Summary >>

Cast:
Paul Le Mat - (Melvin Dummar)
Jason Robards, Jr. - (Howard Hughes)
Mary Steenburgen - (Lynda Dummar)
Jack Kehoe - (Jim Delgado)
Michael J. Pollard - (Little Red)
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Review:
One critic called Jonathan Demme's wistful, strange comedy "an almost flawless act of sympathetic imagination" and compared it to Jean Renoir directing a script by Preston Sturges. Actually, it was the fertile imagination of screenwriter Bo Goldman that concocted the story of Melvin Dummar (Paul LeMat), a Nevada milkman who picks up... Continue >>

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