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R,1hr 42min
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1972
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Warner Home Video
Synopsis: A musician finds his life and his career jumping off the rails in this moody, intelligent drama. Maury Dann (Rip Torn) is a singer and songwriter struggling to hold onto his footing as one of the top names in country & western music. This being 1972, long before the Nashville sound had gone "mainstream," Dann has a new Cadillac and a small entourage to show for his efforts, but most of his shows are one-nighters at beer-soaked honky tonks in the Deep South. Onstage Maury Dann comes off as a soft-hearted ... Full Synopsis
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In the early '70s, stalwart character actor Rip Torn got juicy leading roles in a trio of independently produced films: as Henry Miller in Tropic of Cancer, as a psychiatrist secretly filming his trysts with female patients and other lovers in Coming Apart, and as country singer Maury Dann in this wild ride, easily the best of the bunch. Dann is a hell-raising country singer in the grand if not glorious ... Full Review
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