The Big Fix

Just re-watched an old movie that is a real sleeper. Made in 1978, The Big Fix starred Richard Dreyfus and is a crime-mystery wrapped up in a search for lost 60's social activism. It has great twists and turns with a mix of old memories thrown in for either us old-timers or you kids out there who want to know more about what your parents were up to in the old days (well, not me, I was too young).

F. Murray Abraham and Johnathon Lithgow also star in the movie in very early roles in their careers. Abraham, as an Abbie Hoffman-type character has a great line in the movie about the loss of radicalism in the late-70's: "Do you know why being a revolutionary doesn't work in this country? Being a revolutionary in America is like being a spoil sport at an orgy. All these goodies being passed around and you feel like a shit when you say no."

The movie is only available on VHS but I saw it on one of the thousand movie channels Mrs. Laz allows me to keep.