Rotten
Jack Nicholson's first venture into direction is very much a film of its time.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Drive, He Said
Don't Lie, Don't Cheat, And Don't Be Afraid!
1971 · 1h 35m · X
Comedy, Drama
Directed by
Jack Nicholson
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Jack Nicholson Director
- William Tepper as Hector
- Karen Black as Olive
- Michael Margotta as Gabriel
- Bruce Dern as Coach Bullion
- Robert Towne as Richard
- Henry Jaglom as Conrad
- Michael Warren as Easly (as Mike Warren)
- June Fairchild as Sylvie
- Don Hanmer as Director of Athletics
- Lynette Bernay as Dance Instructor (as Lynn Bernay)
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
67%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Nicholson deftly illustrates the background cynicism of big time sports against the more obvious cynicism of college life.
Variety Staff, Variety
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
Fresh
A disorganized but occasionally brilliant movie about two college students and the world they, and we, inhabit.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Fresh
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
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