Main Cast: Sam Shepard, Kim Basinger, Harry Dean Stanton, Randy Quaid, Martha Crawford
Release Year: 1985
Country: US
Run Time: 108 minutes
MPAA Rating: R
Plot
Though there are several actors in Fool for Love, two share the majority of screen time: Sam Shepard as Eddie, and Kim Basinger as May. May toils away at a fleabag motel; Eddie is her former love, long absent. Unexpectedly re-entering May's life, Eddie picks up where he left off, and soon the couple is alternately bickering violently and making love with equal fervor. Peripheral characters include Harry Dean Stanton as a boozed-up bum, Martha Crawford as an aristocratic would-be murderer, and Randy Quaid as the current man in the heroine's life. This one-two punch of iconoclastic playwright Sam Shepard and unconventional director Robert Altman proved a failure at the box-office and with critics. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Louise Egolf - Eddie's mother; Sura Cox - Teenage May; Jonathan Skinner - Teenage Eddie; April Russell - Young May; Deborah McNaughton - The Countess; Lon Hill - Mr. Valdez
Credit
Scott Bushnell - Associate Producer, Kristine Flones-Czeski - Costume Designer, Robert Altman - Director, Luce Grunenwaldt - Editor, Stephen P. Dunn - Editor, George Burt - Composer (Music Score), David Forrest - Makeup, Stephen Altman - Production Designer, Pierre Mignot - Cinematographer, Yoram Globus - Producer, Menahem Golan - Producer, John Hay - Set Designer, Sam Shepard - Screenwriter
May (Kim Basinger) is hiding out at an old motel in the Southwest. An old flame and childhood friend, Eddie (Sam Shepard) shows up. He threatens to metaphorically and at times, literally, drag her back into the life she had fled from. The film focuses on the couple's fluctuating past and present relationships.
