Main Cast: Jon Voight, Ann-Margret, Burt Young, Bert Remsen, Jude Farese
Release Year: 1982
Country: US
Run Time: 104 minutes
MPAA Rating: R
Plot
Jon Voight starred and co-wrote the script for this comedy (directed by Hal Ashby) concerning two gamblers on the run from their debts who try to score big in Las Vegas. When Alex Kovas (Jon Voight) loses $10,000 to local New York City hoods Joey (Allen Keller) and Harry (Jude Farese) in a poker game, he hightails it to Vegas with his pal Jerry Feldman (Burt Young). In Vegas they make friends with Patti Warner (Ann-Margret), a former call girl, and move into the MGM Grand Hotel after winning big in the casino. But word gets out and Joey and Harry take a trip out West to pay the boys a surprise visit. ~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide
Allen Keller - Joey; Richard Bradford - Bernie Gold; Samantha Harper - Lillian, Jerry's Ex-Wife; Fox Harris - Harvey, Elevator Operator; Peter Lind Hayes; Mary Healy - Tourist; Wiley Harker - Dr. Green; Don Lake - Alfred; Ruth Manning - Shannon; Joseph Miller; Stacey Pickren - Rusty, Redheaded Hooker; Roger Rook; Cis Rundle; Steve Vincent; David Welch; Howard Witt - Sid; Michael Deluna; Terry Fisher; Sig Frohlich - Dealer; Patrick O'Neill - Bartender; Danny Tucker; Don Caldwell; James DeCloss; Marcheline Bertrand - Girl in jeep
Credit
James L. Schoppe - Art Director, Jon Voight - Co-producer, Charles A. Myers - First Assistant Director, Hal Ashby - Director, Eva Gardos - Editor, Janice Hampton - Editor, Robert Jones - Editor, Andrew Braunsberg - Executive Producer, Miles Goodman - Composer (Music Score), Johnny Mandel - Composer (Music Score), John Beal - Composer (Music Score), Robert F. Boyle - Production Designer, Haskell Wexler - Cinematographer, Edward Teets - Production Manager, Andrew Braunsberg - Producer, Robert Schaffel - Producer, Edward Teets - Producer, Jeff Wexler - Sound Mixer, Al Schwartz - Screenwriter, Jon Voight - Screenwriter
Lookin’ to Get Out is a 1982 film directed by Hal Ashby and written by Al Schwartz and Jon Voight, who also stars. Voight's daughter, Angelina Jolie, then seven years old, briefly appears as the Voight character's daughter near the end of the movie. The film also stars Ann-Margret and Burt Young.
Production
Director Ashby had notorious bouts with the studio and recut the film for himself before it was taken from his hands and recut by the studio. Years later, while speaking at the University of Southern California, Jon Voight discovered the version of the film that had been shown to the students wasn't the theatrical version but instead Ashby's original cut (which was considered lost). This was brought to the attention of Warner Home Video who released the Ashby Director Cut on DVD on June 30, 2009.
Trivia
The film is Angelina Jolie's screen debut. She wouldn't appear in another film until 1993's Cyborg 2.
