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Josh Charles | ... | ||
Jason Gedrick | ... |
Tim Reese
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Stephen Baldwin | ... |
Danny Morgan
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Cheryl Pollak | ... |
Carol Brockton
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Rita Taggart | ... |
Kate Golden
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Hy Anzell | ... |
Manny Goldfarb
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Richard Edson | ... |
Mitchell
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Ken Jenkins | ... |
Lou Morgan
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Abraham Benrubi | ... |
Rinny
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David Schwimmer | ... |
John Anderson
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Bob Nickman | ... |
Baldy
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James Krag | ... |
Smiling Jack
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Rana Haugen | ... |
Monica
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Jeffrey Tambor | ... | ||
Todd Tidgewell | ... |
Ricky Toller
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An off-screen narrator, Mort Golden, takes us back to winter around 1975, the year he was 21. He and his two buddies, Tim and Danny, have a fateful trip over the bridge from Detroit into Canada. The three of them are going nowhere in life, although Mort has thoughts of being a writer, while his mom wants him to go to college. He and his pals contemplate making a quick fortune transporting drugs over the border in their beat-up Buick, "the war wagon." Mort's also hopelessly in love with a girl he dated briefly a couple years before. With border inspectors, Tim's temper, and Danny's bottled up emotions, is there any way this can end well? Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>
I remember watching this movie in English class, during my senior year of high school with great fondness. I sat next to my best friend and we loved every moment of this movie. As I sit here and think about it now, I realize that our appreciation for this film had probably very little to do with the fundamentals of good movie-making (ex: acting, direction, musical score), but can instead be attributed to the fact that it displays friendship in one of its purest forms. The film is an illustrated test of loyalty, and what being friends as an adolescent is all about. It made me appreciate my best friend that much more, and in the end, I left class feeling a little bit better about being a kid.