I was so hard to watch this movie. It is a simple story. A young sailor makes a stupid mistake. Because of petty theft, he is court-martialed and sent to prison for eight years. Two petty officers have the duty of bringing him to meet his fate. Randy Quaid is the sad young man who is bewildered and defenseless. We know that he will not do well in prison. So these guys do everything to try to make his last days of freedom memorable. They get him into a fight, get him drunk, and biting him to a whorehouse where they set him up with a prostitute. He is a fish out of water so what these guys are doing is pretty foreign to him. But these guys are heroes and are showing love the best way they can. The nice thing is that we get to see Nicholson on the road to greatness.
Review of The Last Detail
