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The Last Detail
Directed by
Hal Ashby
R
1973
1h 44m
Comedy
,
Drama
7.5
87%
87%
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Two Navy men are ordered to bring a young offender to prison, but decide to show him one last good time along the way.
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Cast of The Last Detail
Jack Nicholson
SM1 Billy 'Bad Ass' Buddusky
Otis Young
GM1 'Mule' Mulhall
Randy Quaid
Seaman Larry Meadows
Clifton James
M. A. A.
Carol Kane
Young Whore
Michael Moriarty
Marine O. D.
Kathleen Miller
Annette
Nancy Allen
Nancy
Gerry Salsberg
Henry
Luana Anders
Donna
Patricia Hamilton
Madame
Gilda Radner
Nichiren Shoshu Member
Hal Ashby
Bearded Man at Bar (uncredited)
Don McGovern
Bartender
Michael Chapman
Taxi Driver
Jim Henshaw
Sweek
Derek McGrath
Nichiren Shoshu Member
Jim Horn
Nichiren Shoshu Member
John Castellano
Nichiren Shoshu Member
The Last Detail Ratings & Reviews
New York Times
Vincent Canby
The Last Detail is one superbly funny, uproariously intelligent performance, plus two others that are very, very good, which are so effectively surrounded by profound bleakness that it seems to be a new kind of anti-comedy.
EmanuelLevy.Com
Emanuel Levy
Hal Ashby's gritty and profane serio comedy is one of his best films, featuring a towering performance from Jack Nicholson.
From the Front Row
Mattie Lucas
One of the great, unheralded masterpieces of the 1970's, subtly defining the decade with a wry, knowing smile.
KPBS.org
Beth Accomando
A classic Jack performance.
Slant Magazine
Chuck Bowen
The film has an engagingly profane, scruffy looseness, a hallmark of Hal Ashby and Robert Towne's careers, that undermines the conventions of the narrative.
Creative Loafing
Matt Brunson
Jack Nicholson in one of his defining performances during a decade packed with 'em.
New York Magazine/Vulture
Judith Crist
Add immaculate casting, a noteworthy debut for cinematographer Michael Chapman, and a spare and subtle score by Johnny Mandel, and you're left with a gem of a film.
Chicago Reader
Don Druker
A tough-talking, sparely directed effort by Hal Ashby, with an immaculate performance by Jack Nicholson.
Variety
Variety Staff
Salty, bawdy, hilarious and very touching.
Gannett News Service
Bernard Drew
Tough, jocose, salty and touching.
WBUR’s Arts & Culture
Sean Burns
Nicholson is all moustache and bluster. It's a larger-than-life role that grows smaller and sadder as the movie wears on, gradually revealing the limitations of Buddusky's bravado and the fears that churn beneath it.
Las Vegas Review-Journal
Carol Cling
Classic Nicholson + classic Robert Towne script = '70s classic
IONCINEMA.com
Nicholas Bell
Neither melancholy nor glitzy enough to warrant the similar cult following of several other Ashby titles, it's a beautiful portrait of barely contained despair trapped in the escapist values of a road trip going nowhere.
The New Yorker
Pauline Kael
This picture sounds realistically profane and has a dark, grainy surface, and by Hollywood standards, it's strong, adult material, but the mechanism is a vise for our emotions -- the mechanism is schlock.
Esquire Magazine
John Simon
There is a film in all this; Ashby and his cohorts, however, have not found it. Their movie is too schematic in its rote ups and downs, too predictable in its calculated alternation of drama and farce, and too whorish in its playing to the gallery.
Epoch Times
Ian Kane
"The Last Detail" is a sometimes funny, sometimes bittersweet drama that features believable characters and situations.
Los Angeles Free Press
Dick Lochte
Those who believed, after Harold and Maude, that the editor-turned-director was one of the bright hopes for the future of the cinema, will find nothing to alter that opinion here.
TV Guide
Ashby's direction is superlative, as is his use of music to help secure the mood.
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