The Big Fix . Nashville Scene . 11-30-98

The Big Fix

DIRECTED BY: Jeremy Paul Kagan

REVIEWED: 11-30-98

The Coen Brothers' The Big Lebowski (one of the best and funniest films of the year, no matter what other critics say) is not the first film to cross a rickety counterculture with the work of a gumshoe. For example, there's this surprisingly deep California crime film from 1978. Richard Dreyfus stars as a cynical private dick who gets hired to track down a refugee revolutionary (F. Murray Abraham). The search for an icon ends up becoming a search for something that has been lost by many; and, as befits late-'70s malaise, what gets found is a betrayal of everything a generation once stood for. It's pretty heavy, man, but it's also pretty interesting both from a historical and from a cinematic perspective.

--Noel Murray

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