Loose Ends (1975 film)
Loose Ends is a 1975 American feature film by Victoria Wozniak and David Burton Morris.[1]
Summary
[edit]Two frustrated working class mechanics, one divorced while the other having a small struggling family, tried to go to Denver in order to escape from their depressing lives.[2][3][4]
Production
[edit]The film was shot in Minneapolis on a low budget while Morris was on summer break from UCLA. A Blu-ray release of the newly restored film was planned by Vinegar Syndrome after finding the original negative in a New Jersey warehouse, but was postponed afterwards.[4]
Reception and legacy
[edit]Variety stated that the film "fails to develop much identification with or empathy for the trapped participants"[5] while Vincent Canby of The New York Times praised it as a "remarkably good, level-headed movie".[6]
The 1988 film Patti Rocks serves as a sequel to this film.[4][7]
References
[edit]- ^ "AFI|Catalog". catalog.afi.com.
- ^ "The Outsiders: New Hollywood Cinema in the Seventies". BAMPFA. December 21, 2014.
- ^ "Loose Ends". BAMPFA. December 22, 2014.
- ^ a b c Wright, Brett (April 25, 2022). "Loose Ends: An Interview with David Burton Morris and Victoria Wozniak".
- ^ Variety Staff (January 1, 1975). "Loose Ends".
- ^ Canby, Vincent (May 19, 1976). "The Screen: 'Loose Ends' Unravels Regional Life (Published 1976)". The New York Times.
- ^ "The Minneapolis Films Of David Burton Morris And Victoria Wozniak – TRYLON". April 7, 2023.
External links
[edit]- Loose Ends at IMDb