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January 1, 1972. 3 min read. Jack Nicholson’s “Drive, He Said” is a disorganized but occasionally brilliant movie about two college students and the world they, and we, inhabit. Their campus is a microcosm of the least reassuring aspects of contemporary America; the two overwhelming mental states are paranoia and compulsive competitiveness.
Fresh off of his Five Easy Pieces success, Jack Nicholson mounted his enormously irreverent directorial debut. Based on the best-selling novel by Jeremy Larner, Drive, He Said, free-spirited and sobering by turns, is a sketch of the exploits of a disaffected college basketball player (William Tepper) and his increasingly radical roommate (Michael Margotta), as well as a feverishly shot and ...
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Drive, He Said: Directed by Jack Nicholson. With William Tepper, Karen Black, Michael Margotta, Bruce Dern. The star player of a college basketball team starts to go off the rails with an illicit love affair and his roommate going crazy to avoid the war draft.
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- Comedy, Drama, Sport
- Jack Nicholson
- 1971-05-28
Drive, He Said: Directed by Jack Nicholson. With William Tepper, Karen Black, Michael Margotta, Bruce Dern. The star player of a college basketball team starts to go off the rails with an illicit love affair and his roommate going crazy to avoid the war draft.
Drive, He Said (1971) a film that finds strengths and weaknesses in it’s share of conventionality and unconventionality, As Jack Nicholson’s directorial debut, Drive, He Said displays at the least that he is a gifted director of actors. Even when the story might seem to lose its way to the audience (and to a modern audience – if they can ...
Dec 9, 2010 · The two most overlooked films of the BBS era, <I>Drive, He Said</I> and <I>A Safe Place</I> are daring, personal character studies, and the directorial debuts of, respectively, Jack Nicholson and Henry Jaglom. Nicholson's feverish snapshot of the early seventies concerns a disaffected college basketball player and his increasingly radical roommate. In Jaglom's delicate, fantasy-faced drama ...
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Build 58ba259 (7948) Hector is a star basketball player for the College basketball team he plays for, the Leopards. His girlfriend, Olive, doesn't know whether to stay with him or leave him. And his friend, Gabriel, who may have dropped out from school and become a protestor, wants desperately not to get drafted for Vietnam.
