6/10
"Nothing happens" in much of the BBS films but even less so here. Jack Nicholson and Bruce Dern play a couple of brothers, Nicholson the younger, straight-laced, depressed one and Dern the older, scheming extrovert. Ellen Burstyn and Julia Anne Robinson are the women in the middle. Dern summons Nicholson to Atlantic City where he's hatching a doomed plan to develop real estate on an island in Hawaii. The film is bookended by a couple of great, sad monologues by Nicholson and it's always watchable due to the acting of the leads, but it's just not terribly interesting. I did find it nailed the curious dynamic between all brothers close in age quite well, and the ending threw me for a bit of a loop. And it had Scatman Crothers! But that wasn't quite enough to get me too excited about it at any point.
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