Drive, he said / Columbia ; a BBS production ; screenplay by Jeremy Larner and Jack Nicholson ; produced by Steve Blauner, Jack Nicholson ; directed by Jack Nicholson.

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"Jack Nicholson first put his well-documented enthusiasm for basketball to good use in this film, which he wrote and directed between his roles in Five Easy Pieces and Carnal Knowledge. William Tepper plays Hector, a student at a college in Ohio who shares a room with his friend Gabriel (Michael Mar...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: BBS Productions
Columbia Pictures
Criterion Collection (Firm)
Other Authors: Nicholson, Jack
Blauner, Steve
Tepper, William
Black, Karen, 1939-2013
Margotta, Michael
Dern, Bruce
Towne, Robert
Shire, David
Larner, Jeremy
Language:English
Language and/or Writing System:
Subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing.
Published: Burbank, CA : Criterion Collection, [2010], ©2010.
Series:Criterion collection ; 547.
Subjects:
Larner, Jeremy > Film adaptations.
Basketball players > United States > Drama.
College athletes > United States > Drama.
College students > Political activity > United States > Drama.
Radicalism > United States > History > 20th century > Drama.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 > Protest movements > United States > Drama.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Film adaptations.
Genre:
Film adaptations.
Drama.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Physical Description:1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Format: Video DVD
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Summary:
"Jack Nicholson first put his well-documented enthusiasm for basketball to good use in this film, which he wrote and directed between his roles in Five Easy Pieces and Carnal Knowledge. William Tepper plays Hector, a student at a college in Ohio who shares a room with his friend Gabriel (Michael Margotta) and is the star player on the school's basketball team. Hector has been approached to quit college and play pro ball, but Gabriel is urging him to devote more time to radical political causes. Of course, both have plenty of other things on their mind; Hector is having a clandestine affair with the wife of one of his professors (Karen Black), while Gabriel, in a bid to beat the draft and avoid going to Vietnam, is trying to convince the draft board that he's insane. Unfortunately, Gabriel is feigning madness so well that he's not so sure he hasn't actually become crazy"--Amazon.com.
Note:Issued as part of a 2-disc set (with "A safe place") within a 9-DVD boxed set titled: America lost and found: the BBS story.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1970.
Based on the novel by Jeremy Larner.
DVD special edition features include: New, restored high-definition digital transfer, supervised by director Jack Nicholson; "A cautionary tale of campus revolution and sexual freedom", a 2009 video piece featuring the director.
Videorecording.
Call Number:PN1995.9.B29 D74 2010 VideoDVD
ISBN:9781604653656
1604653655
Credits:Director of photography, Bill Butler ; editors, Pat Somerset ... [et al.] ; music, David Shire.
System Details:DVD.
Cast:
William Tepper, Karen Black, Michael Margotta, Bruce Dern, Robert Towne.