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*** “Who’ll Stop the Rain.”
MGM/UA. 29.95. 1978. R.
Karel Reisz’s film, made from Robert Stone’s novel “Dog Soldiers,” stands up as a trenchantly good definition of who our heroes were in the 1970s. The subject is heroin smuggling; the characters include a great anti-hero, father figure, lover and Marine par excellence (Nick Nolte) and one of those irresistible, damaged, ‘70s child-women that Tuesday Weld delineated with such authority. Here also: the cream of the period’s best young character actors--Michael Moriarty, Richard Masur, Ray Sharkey, Charlie Haid. The music by Creedence Clearwater brings a confused era all back again.
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