The title might raise hopes that the director of the underrated Culpepper Cattle Company had returned to the Western genre. Any such hopes would quickly be dashed, although a certain amount of Western flavor creeps in through the Frontier Town tourist trap, the late show on the motel TV, and the Southwest desert landscape. What the world needs now is undoubtedly not another psycho-killer thriller, but it is nonetheless nice to see Dick Richards back in the director's seat, or saddle, after almost five years' absence; and nice to see, too, that he hasn't lost his light-fingered, impressionistic touch. The central situation is reasonably well rooted in real life: a Western vacation intended to bring about a rapprochement between a precocious grade-schooler and his divorced mother's new boyfriend. The owlish little boy is the primary focus of concern, and there are some good visual evocations of a child's capacity to fasten on and fantasize about something invisible to adults: specifically, in this instance, a dinosauric old Chevy with toothy grillwork and a license plate that reads "HEX 576." With Paul Le Mat, Catherine Hicks, and Stephen McHattie. (1982) — Duncan Shepherd
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