Jack Nicholson is a Jean Shepard type radio story teller out of Philadelphia, he is contacted by his semi-estranged brother Bruce Dern to come to Atlantic City and help him with what turns out to be a long shot real estate scheme. The brothers attempt to evaid black gangsters and sell Japanese investors on a Hawiian resort, amidst the playground of 50 years previous, decaying in the salt water air (pre urban renewal Atlantic City sure is fun to look at). They do so in the company of a step mother (Ellen Burstyn) step daughter (Julie Ann Robinson, Twin Falls, Idaho born actress who would die in a Eugene, Oregon hotel fire in 1975) pair.
Written by Jacob Brackman, who wrote songs with Carley Simon, and directed by co-creator of 'The Monkees' Bob Rafelson. This is in the tradition of Rafelson's previous Nicholson collaboration 'Five Easy Pieces', a rambeling character piece, quriky, dry and poignant. That ending is something, a marvel of subtle set up. ***
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