this film premise seem to be that the passing of the world war 2 generation in america and with it apple pie phoniness and hypocritical morality and be a terrible tragedy . those awful hippy ruin everything apparently . what hold the film together be the excellent performance particularly lemmon which be truly remarkable . otherwise we have a boring slice of life drama ( just over 24 hour of jack life ) with pretension . i find it a chore to sit through .