![]() ![]() A quirky, widely disregarded film that is both mildly entertaining and bafflingly stupid, Backtrack features a star-studded cast including Vincent Price, Joe Pesci, and John Turturro, with cameos from Charlie Sheen, a young Catherine Keener, and yes, Bob Dylan as a chainsaw-wielding conceptual artist. Genre: Mystery & thriller, Comedy Original Language: English Director: Dennis Hopper Release Date (Theaters): limited Release Date (Streaming): Runtime: 1h 55m Production. Furthermore, it never makes up its mind if it wants to be ridiculous or serious and in the end plays like a farcical David Lynch rip-off. Produced by Dan Paulson, Dick Clark Directed by Dennis Hopper We’re told that Dennis Hopper’s Backtrack began as ‘a story about a woman who falls in love with her rapist.’ That still happens in the final film, but the overall plot is a gangster chase involving hoods and a hit man who dresses like it’s still the 1940s. While the film has cult appeal and dark humor it is simply too slipshod and silly. The bizarre chemistry between Hopper and an uncharacteristically sultry Foster is absurd but incredibly entertaining. Wyoming cowhand and gambler Trampas is sent by his employer to Mexico to buy a bull but in Laredo he unwillingly joins three Texas Rangers on a dangerous mission into Mexico. Rusty, Zach, and Alfie are on a perilous course toward juvey until they meet up with a rule breaking jackaroo, Bernie Shakeshaft, and hit the road with. This excessive artiness sometimes borders on pretentiousness but the obtuse style and tone Hopper employs throughout may actually be a send-up of art and artists themselves, case in point being Hopper's God-awful mock saxophone playing. With Neville Brand, James Drury, Doug McClure, Peter Brown. Instead of rubbing her out, Hopper stalks Foster (art imitating life) and allows her to live under the condition that her life "belongs to him." Foster's forced exile forces her to face the typically artistic dilemmas of isolation, self-loathing and self-indulgence. Backtrack is a western novel by Milton Lott, published in 1965. After witnessing a mob hit, Foster must go into hiding and the man hired to snuff her out, played by Hopper, obsessively falls in love with her. Jodie Foster plays a conceptual artist who uses flashing signs as her medium. Dennis Hopper's off-kilter take on art, life, love, and all points in between is a meandering mess.
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