Drive, He Said (1971)

Directed by

Jack Nicholson

Genre

drama film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 30m

Rated

R

Rating

5.7 of 10 from 25 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A college basketball player has an affair with a professor's wife while his roommate tries to avoid the Vietnam War draft. The movie shows their frustrations with relationships and politics in the early 1970s.

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What happens

Drive, He Said is a 1971 American sports comedy-drama film directed by Jack Nicholson, in his directorial debut, and starring William Tepper, Karen Black, Bruce Dern, Robert Towne and Henry Jaglom. Based on the 1964 novel of the same name by Jeremy Larner, the film follows a disenchanted college basketball player who is having an affair with a professor's wife, as well as dealing with his counterculture roommate's preoccupation with avoiding the draft in the Vietnam War. The film features supporting performances by David Ogden Stiers, Cindy Williams, and Michael Warren. The screenplay was adapted by Larner and Nicholson, and included uncredited contributions from Terrence Malick. After screening at the Cannes Film Festival, where it was poorly received, the film faced more backlash from the Motion Picture Association of America for its profanity and sexual content, including numerous scenes featuring full-frontal male nudity. The title comes from the poem "I Know a Man" by Robert Creeley, which a character recites in the opening scene. It also serves as a cryptic reference to basketball, the movie's dominant milieu. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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