It's 1969 in Key West. Against a backdrop of the Moon landing, 12-year-old David Arnott tries to be an adult to get his mother, Goldie Hawn, out of her job of stripping
It's all very low key, with Miss Hawn quite obviously trying to establish herself as a serious actress is what is essentially a supporting role, based on a novel and with a screenplay by Scott Sommer. As with most coming-of-age stories, it attempts to say something universal, but whatever it is, it's obscured by the careful attention to detail as to the moment and place, and low-key performances Perhaps it's a meditation on the futility of trying to be a hero, as the father returns from Vietnam to run away and be a gardener at a monastery, Miss Hawn takes up stripping to provide a life for er son and her, and David Arnott gets involved with drugs to bail her out of her job. Thoroughly depressing.
It's all very low key, with Miss Hawn quite obviously trying to establish herself as a serious actress is what is essentially a supporting role, based on a novel and with a screenplay by Scott Sommer. As with most coming-of-age stories, it attempts to say something universal, but whatever it is, it's obscured by the careful attention to detail as to the moment and place, and low-key performances Perhaps it's a meditation on the futility of trying to be a hero, as the father returns from Vietnam to run away and be a gardener at a monastery, Miss Hawn takes up stripping to provide a life for er son and her, and David Arnott gets involved with drugs to bail her out of her job. Thoroughly depressing.