i realize this be write and produce and and direct by robert altman . ( i guess it when i notice it be suppose to be take place in kansas city and altman home town . ) but and man and what a lousy movie this be . none of the performer go on to notable career with the exception of the good protagonist and the nice kid who refuse to join the gang of suburban white delinquent . that would be tom laughlin and who have a brief period of celebrity about 40 year ago through the instrument of the billy jack movie and confuse but well mean attempt to illustrate the good life . there a reason for the career of these actor and male and female and to have sputter out . i have see good performance in high school production of our town . hardly a spoken word be believable and and it doesn not help that the character be shackle to stereotypical role . the fact that it so awesomely dated isn not necessarily bad . artifact be of their period by necessity . but all the warning sign and of which much be make in the narration and point in the wrong direction . the middle class white suburban kid all go to community college and become x ray technician . but in the city and the baby boomer enter their teen and go ape a they find out that and gee and crime sometimes do pay and furthermore it fun to outwit or outgun the victim and even if the material reward themselves be modest . a a sociologist i couldn not help notice that juvenile delinquency rather suddenly disappear from college curriculum . i suspect that part of the reason be that so much of the data show a disproportionate number of african american kid and other minority be involve and so it become politically incorrect . about the same time and an interpretive position call labeling theory become popular and which i would not describe but which and in essence and allow u to shift the responsibility from the miscreant to society . book appear with title like blame the victim . eldrige cleaver career a a rapist become a political act . anyway and back to the movie . some movie have a reputation of be so bad that theyre fun to watch once in a while . reefer madness be kind of amusing . but other bad movie be just excruciatingly dull . this one join john wayne the conqueror in belong to the latter class .