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Drive, He Said (1971)

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Jack Nicholson first put his well-documented enthusiasm for basketball to good use in this film, which he wrote and directed between his roles in Five Easy Pieces and Carnal Knowledge. William Tepper plays Hector, a student at a college in Ohio who shares a room with his friend Gabriel (Michael Margotta) and is the star player on the school's basketball team. Hector has been approached to quit college and play pro ball, but Gabriel is urging him to devote more time to radical political causes.

R, 1 hr. 35 min.

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Feb 13, 2012

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Jack Nicholson's first venture into direction is very much a film of its time.

November 6, 2007 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | Comment
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Nicholson deftly illustrates the background cynicism of big time sports against the more obvious cynicism of college life.

November 6, 2007 Full Review Source: Variety | Comment
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All of the film's characters, and all of the performances, are touched with the kind of unexpected sensibility and decency that are rare in most films of this genre.

June 4, 2005 Full Review Source: New York Times | Comment
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A disorganized but occasionally brilliant movie about two college students and the world they, and we, inhabit.

June 4, 2005 Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times | Comment
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An ambitious but confused film about basketball, draft dodging and sleeping with professors' wives.

November 6, 2007 Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | Comment
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No way can it be said to work, despite the cast's cultish distinction, but it still knocks most of its quasi-radical contemporaries sideways as an index of doomed '60s/'70s causes and confusions.

January 26, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out | Comment

Ultimately, there's no theme here that isn't addressed more coherently and directly in a more conventional film like Five Easy Pieces.

June 4, 2005 Full Review Source: Film4 | Comment

Nicholson's personality comes through in the film's rhythms: crazed and vibrant at times, classical and refined at other times.

June 4, 2005 Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid | Comment
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It's a shame that one of the greatest actors of our time couldn't convince the lead in his directorial debut to give a credible performance. But William Tepper is only one of the problems with this meandering mess of a movie. It's a shame because there is a great story in here and the footage of the basketball games is

August 10, 2011
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A campus revolution movie, Jack Nicholson's first foray behind the camera is cool at times but just too dated for the rest of it. When BBS hits, they hit hard (The Last Picture Show, Five Easy Pieces, Easy Rider), but when they don't (Head, Drive, He Said) the movies are barely even remembered.

February 6, 2012

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