Jack Nicholson, Karen Black, Billy Green Bush, Fannie Flagg, Sally Struthers, Marlena MacGuire, Richard Stahl, Lois Smith, Helena Kallianiotes

An exceptional film celebrated for its penetrating character study of an oil rigger (Nicholson) who returns home to confront his dying father and a former career as a classical pianist. On the way, the individual rigger eats at truck stops, chats with waitresses, and asks for a menu substitution that would make a chicken blush.

(by Rebecca L. Epstein)