Out Of The Blue

Nearly ten years after his second directorial effort, THE LAST MOVIE (1971) was savaged by nearly everyone who bother to see it, Dennis Hopper returned to directing almost by accident. Slated to star in this modest Canadian film, Hopper stepped behind the camera when original director Leonard Yakin quit. Hopper also reworked much of the Yakir's script, and the result is a fitful, altogether harrowing study of a family in dissolution.

Hopper plays Don, the father of CeBe (DAYS OF HEAVEN's Linda Manz), a disaffected, confused, and fatalistic teenager. Don has served a five-year prison term for a drunk-driving accident in which several children were killed. In the ...