this may be the only film that actually come close to capture on film the essentially uncapturable world of the american college experience of the late 60 early 70 . go ahead and name another movie that even approach this one represent get straight . rpm . these be caricature . return of the secaucus seven have it moment and but that a retrospective film about ( self obsess ) individual more than a film about a time and a place depict in that time and place . drive and he say portrays with subtlety and nuance where it should and and a swift kick in the short where that the only appropriate way the anti draft movement and the ambiguity of big time college sport ( especially when there a war on ) and the sexual revolution of the period and and the general unreality of the day . believe me and it be like that . the whole cast deserves commendation ( a do the director and of course ) but particular praise should be reserve for bruce dern and a the basketball coach and and karen black and the hero very unusual except for that time love interest . william tepper and a the lead and also rate a real round of applause both for his perfect capturing of the student athlete of the period and for actually play real college basketball in the film ( remember anthony perkins in tall story . yikes . ) . all in all and a classic of a kind and the last film someone currently in 6th grade should be write comment on ( boring and repellent um and right and sonny and please go back to your arnold movie ) . why isn not this film available from imdb .