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The Last Detail
Directed by
Hal Ashby
R
1974
1h 44m
Comedy
,
Drama
7.5
87%
87%
7.0
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Two Navy petty officers are ordered to escort a young enlisted sailor to prison, but decide to treat him to a few entertaining diversions along the way.
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Cast of The Last Detail
Jack Nicholson
Buddusky
Otis Young
Mulhall
Randy Quaid
Meadows
Clifton James
M. A. A.
Carol Kane
Young Whore
Michael Moriarty
Marine O. D.
Luana Anders
Donna
Kathleen Miller
Annette
Nancy Allen
Nancy
Gerry Salsberg
Henry
Don McGovern
Bartender
Patricia Hamilton
Madame
Michael Chapman
Taxi Driver / Director Of Photography
Jim Henshaw
Sweek
Gilda Radner
Nichiren Shoshu Member
Derek McGrath
Nichiren Shoshu Member
Jim Horn
Nichiren Shoshu Member
John Castellano
Nichiren Shoshu Member
Hal Ashby
Director
Robert Towne
Screenplay
The Last Detail Ratings & Reviews
The New Yorker
Pauline Kael
This picture sounds realistically profane and has a dark, grainy surface, and by Hollywood standards, it's strong, adult material, but the mechanism is a vise for our emotions -- the mechanism is schlock.
Epoch Times
Ian Kane
"The Last Detail" is a sometimes funny, sometimes bittersweet drama that features believable characters and situations.
IONCINEMA.com
Nicholas Bell
Neither melancholy nor glitzy enough to warrant the similar cult following of several other Ashby titles, it's a beautiful portrait of barely contained despair trapped in the escapist values of a road trip going nowhere.
Esquire Magazine
John Simon
There is a film in all this; Ashby and his cohorts, however, have not found it. Their movie is too schematic in its rote ups and downs, too predictable in its calculated alternation of drama and farce, and too whorish in its playing to the gallery.
Los Angeles Free Press
Dick Lochte
Those who believed, after Harold and Maude, that the editor-turned-director was one of the bright hopes for the future of the cinema, will find nothing to alter that opinion here.
New York Magazine/Vulture
Judith Crist
Add immaculate casting, a noteworthy debut for cinematographer Michael Chapman, and a spare and subtle score by Johnny Mandel, and you're left with a gem of a film.
Gannett News Service
Bernard Drew
Tough, jocose, salty and touching.
From the Front Row
Mattie Lucas
One of the great, unheralded masterpieces of the 1970's, subtly defining the decade with a wry, knowing smile.
WBUR’s Arts & Culture
Sean Burns
Nicholson is all moustache and bluster. It's a larger-than-life role that grows smaller and sadder as the movie wears on, gradually revealing the limitations of Buddusky's bravado and the fears that churn beneath it.
Creative Loafing
Matt Brunson
Jack Nicholson in one of his defining performances during a decade packed with 'em.
Slant Magazine
Chuck Bowen
The film has an engagingly profane, scruffy looseness, a hallmark of Hal Ashby and Robert Towne's careers, that undermines the conventions of the narrative.
EmanuelLevy.Com
Emanuel Levy
Hal Ashby's gritty and profane serio comedy is one of his best films, featuring a towering performance from Jack Nicholson.
KPBS.org
Beth Accomando
A classic Jack performance.
Chicago Reader
Don Druker
A tough-talking, sparely directed effort by Hal Ashby, with an immaculate performance by Jack Nicholson.
TV Guide
Ashby's direction is superlative, as is his use of music to help secure the mood.
Variety
Variety Staff
Salty, bawdy, hilarious and very touching.
Las Vegas Review-Journal
Carol Cling
Classic Nicholson + classic Robert Towne script = '70s classic
New York Times
Vincent Canby
The Last Detail is one superbly funny, uproariously intelligent performance, plus two others that are very, very good, which are so effectively surrounded by profound bleakness that it seems to be a new kind of anti-comedy.
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