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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: SONY PICTURES HOME ENT
DVD Layers: 1
DVD Sides: 2
EAN: 9780767828109
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Full Screen, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0767828100
Label: Sony Pictures
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 2.0 MonoEnglishSubtitledSpanishSubtitledPortugueseSubtitledGeorgianSubtitledChineseSubtitledThaiSubtitled
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
MPN: COLD00349D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 1
Release Date: December 14, 1999
Running Time: 103 minutes
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: December 12, 1973
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Overshadowed by his high-profile leads in such '70s landmarks as Five Easy Pieces, Chinatown, and One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, Jack Nicholson's remarkably complex turn in this raucous yet ultimately somber road movie also remains his most underrated. As the snarling, hedonistic, but emotionally lost Navy lifer Billy Budduskey, Nicholson teams with fellow sailor "Mule" (Otis Young) on a seemingly simple duty of escorting a naive thief (Randy Quaid) from the Norfolk naval base to the brig in Massachusetts. Though polar opposites--Mule is hard-nosed Navy, while the first image of Budduskey shows him asleep in a chair, tattered and tattooed, gripping a near-empty bottle of cheap wine--both sailors learn that the 18-year-old will lose eight years of his life for a petty theft, and agree to cram his lost years into one booze-, sex-, and drug-infested (lost) weekend. From bizarre religious ceremonies to drunken nights in New York brothels, the two sailors provide all the sins they can think of, while their charge, Meadows, appears to go along just to please his escorts. The older sailors are definitely having more fun, essentially projecting all of their own lost freedom onto Meadows. The young sailor's ultimate doom mirrors the daily prison lived by both Budduskey and Mule, and director Hal Ashby hangs a decisive air of bleakness and claustrophobia over screenwriter Robert Towne's profane humor. When the question of whether to let the poor teenager escape ultimately arrives for the two sailors, the final decision is relatively pointless: in or out of prison, all three men are trapped by the Establishment and their own lost free will. --Dave McCoy
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Rating:  -
Last Detail is a great little Nicholson flick from 1974. I said little, first, because it is a small on location film made when you could get a big studio to pay for a small, individuallized project. These were really "independant" films, before it was cool to be called an indie filmaker. Second, too few people know about Last Detail.
Jack Nicholson and Otis Young play two sailors assigned to take a third, younger seaman to Portsmith Millatary Prison. The crime: steeling forty dollars ... Read More
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One of Jack Nicholson's best performances, with incredibly good support from Otis Young and Randy Quaid. I was just a boy when I first saw this movie on a black and white television in my father's apartment, and it struck me then as something quite "real" in a way that other movies did not. As I grew up, my initial memory of "Bad [...]" and "Mule" transporting Seaman Meadows cross country to the brig did not fade, and in fact, after my own military service I came to feel that it was a very accurate portrayal ... Read More
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In "The Last Detail" (1973) I keep thinking back to this wonderful scene, deep into the movie, when Mule (played by the wonderful Otis Young)takes Jack "[..]" Buddusky Nicholson to task for trying to show their young prisoner (Randy Quaid) a good time as they make their way up from Norfolk to Boston.
Both Mule and Buddusky are on the train and Mule is speaking sternly to Buddusky, at times yelling. As the lecture continues, there are shots of a forlorn Nicholson, then fade-outs and then more shots of Nicholson ... Read More
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One of those iconic 70's films we all need to see at least once in a lifetime; `The Last Detail' is a buddy film that really transcends its genre and becomes so much more than generic. Sporting a slew of finely tuned performances, `The Last Detail' is exciting, entertaining and rather insightful; a poignant look at the mental prison's we live in and the innate desire to break free, if only for a little while.
When Seaman Larry Meadows attempted to steal forty dollars from a charity he never expected that ... Read More
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This is a great old film! I watched it growing up and have always wanted to add it to my collection! The story of a few old tough sea dogs escorting a young Marine to the Brig for a long sentence for a minor infraction show a slew of complex issues that arise for each of the charters...It's worth the journy as the story and cast do not dissapoint! Buy it and watch it! It's an all time favorite in my military and war genre collection!
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