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James Toback is screwing with us, and mostly, it's okay. I once again think a real script would have improved a mostly improv film, but at least Toback is going for a bit more of a portrait than a narrative (although it's there too) and thus isn't hurt much by not having had a detailed script. There are a few really great moments, but in the end, I think I've seen documentaries that have done this better and with a lot more truth. B-

I can remember a time when where we went to the movies was just as important as the movies we went to see .... From the moment moviegoers arrived to buy their tickets, there was a sense of something special, a feeling that to step inside was to enter another time and place. - Gene Kelly