Crime drama starring Richard Gere and Valerie Kaprisky. Jesse Lujack is a hustler, living on his wits, stealing cars and anything else in order to survive. On the run after killing a cop, Jesse seeks help from Monica, a French student with whom he hopes to escape to Mexico. But Monica has other ideas and the cops are never far behind.
This remake of Jean-Luc Godard's 1959 classic A Bout de Souffle suffers greatly in comparison, but judged on its own merits it's a fair attempt at an on-the-run-style drama. Driving a stolen car, Richard Gere kills a cop and then heads into the arms of Valérie Kaprisky, a French student with whom he's had a brief affair. As the police close in, Gere seems oblivious to anything other than Kaprisky's rather obvious (and oft displayed) charms, and Jim McBride - who later directed Dennis Quaid and Ellen Barkin in The Big Easy - seems most interested in getting both his actors to display as much flesh as possible. It's stylish if shallow, and Gere fits his superficial role like a glove.
| role | name |
|---|---|
| Jesse Lujack | Richard Gere |
| Monica | Valérie Kaprisky |
| Birnbaum | Art Metrano |
| Lieutenant Parmental | John P Ryan |
| Paul | William Tepper |
| Sergeant Enright | Robert Dunn (1) |
| Berutti | Garry Goodrew |
| Salesgirl | Lisa Jane Persky |
| role | name |
|---|---|
| Director | Jim McBride |
