Who’ll Stop the Rain

Karel Reisz

A late-decade peak in sleepless broken-dream trips came with Nick Nolte as a Marine smuggling heroin and ending up a fugitive with his friend’s wife (Weld).

DIRECTOR
Karel Reisz
YEAR
1978
COUNTRY
USA
RUNTIME
126 minutes
LANGUAGE
English

A late-decade peak in Seventies broken dreams came with this sleepless adaptation of Robert Stone’s celebrated novel Dog Soldiers. Dazed Vietnam journalist John Converse (Michael Moriarty) finally crosses the line (or shuffles across it) by giving heroin dealing a shot; his buddy, Marines burnout Ray (Nick Nolte), smuggles the package to John’s bookstore-minding wife Marge (Weld). But bickering narcs send them fleeing into the wilderness and out to a sun-scorched hippie redoubt, while the narcotics send Marge reeling. Converse: “I’ve been waiting all my life to f*ck up like this.”

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