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.
No way can it be said to work, despite the cast's cultish distinction, but it still knocks most of its quasi-radical contemporaries sideways as an index of doomed '60s/'70s causes and confusions.
– ,
Time Out,
26 Jan 2006
fresh:
A disorganized but occasionally brilliant movie about two college students and the world they, and we, inhabit.
– Roger Ebert,
Chicago Sun-Times,
4 Jun 2005
fresh:
All of the film's characters, and all of the performances, are touched with the kind of unexpected sensibility and decency that are rare in most films of this genre.
– Vincent Canby,
New York Times,
4 Jun 2005
fresh:
Nicholson deftly illustrates the background cynicism of big time sports against the more obvious cynicism of college life.
– Variety Staff,
Variety,
6 Nov 2007
rotten:
Jack Nicholson's first venture into direction is very much a film of its time.