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Helen Stenborg | ... |
Marian
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Patricia Dunnock | ... |
Paula
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Scott Sowers | ... |
Prospect Biker
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| Mickey Jones | ... |
Head Biker
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| Suzanne Cryer | ... |
Marika
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| Ilia Volok | ... |
Taxi Driver
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Don Gettinger | ... |
Paula's Boss
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Steve Bonge | ... |
Lead Biker
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Linda Mancini | ... |
Woman on Fire Escape
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Paul Gold | ... |
Clubhouse Biker #1
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Angelo Berkowitz | ... |
Young Drug Dealer
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| Camille Carida | ... |
Girlfriend on Stairs
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| John Henry Whitaker | ... |
Clubhouse Biker
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A widowed Midwestern housewife travels to Manhattan for the first time to visit her daughter. Once there, she becomes obsessed with the Hell's Angels-ish bikers' club across the street from her daughter's East Village apartment.
Appalling because a student film had won the Academy Award for best live-action short. My fellow film students and I were hopeful when we watched it.
Appalling because it is so bad. As cornball as it gets. It's competently made (you don't question the technical aspects of the film), but it's utterly charmless, bland, and unfunny. It's like watching bad television. It thinks it's a lot better than it is. So, apparently, does the AMPAS.
Maybe I shouldn't be at all surprised that it won an Oscar. Winning one these days seems to be more of an insult than a compliment.