Out (AKA Deadly Drifter)
During the 1960s, an existentialist revolutionary takes his personal credo to America's highways and byways and explores these open roads in the style of Jack Kerouac, never staying anywhere for long. As time passes into the '70s and '80s, he's aghast at society's degeneration from idealistic communalism to greedy self-interest … but also discovers he's forever alienated from everything, good or bad. Peter Coyote and Danny Glover co-star.
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a hippie-revolution stoner adventure - mmdomega
Peter Coyote stars in Out, re-titled Deadly Drifter. Neither title quite warns the viewer that it's a hippie-revolution stoner adventure.
Danny Glover is also in it (his first film) and the video has, over the years, shown older versions of Peter and Danny, looking like detectives or tough guys, to go with the re-title.
But anyone who remembers the 60s will enjoy the authenticity of Peter Coyote, who really was a hippie. The ideals of youth of the era expressed in terms of a satirical fantasy will either strike the viewer as too ridiculous or will touch the heart with the dreamy naïveté of a generation that once believed in dreams.
Rex (Peter Coyote) is a Greenwich Village existentialist who passes through foolish stages of alienation and idealism in the 1960s and 1970s. He is an advocate of violent overthrow of the status quo, a believer in anarchy or communism or something vague and uncertain.
He has a new awakening probably no more or less idiotic than his former phases, and sets off on a road journey a la Jack Kerouac and achieves the mystic heights (or depths) of a Carlos Castaneda.
Nothing about the film is definite enough to be completely satisfying and the mysteries are too absurd to be enough to make the film especially successful. Although no excuse made for the production could seriously allege it's a good film, it would be a mistake to dismiss it as awful.
The majority of people couldn't possibly like it, no more than could the majority of people like an experimental novel in blank verse. But that doesn't mean it's bad, either. Viewed with an open mind and perhaps a dash of nostalgia, this is an enjoyable piece of independent filmmaking, and even the closed-minded might find the character of Empty Fox worth one's patience in viewing.
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a hippie-revolution stoner adventure - mmdomega
Peter Coyote stars in Out, re-titled Deadly Drifter. Neither title quite warns the viewer that it's a hippie-revolution stoner adventure.
Danny Glover is also in it (his first film) and the video has, over the years, shown older versions of Peter and ...