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...David Becker, preppie and Viet Nam vet, sees himself as Prince Valium. Becker nobly advises a neophyte buyer to get out of town and stay out. Then he admits, "It certainly was about as close as coke dealers could ever come to walking old ladies across busy intersections...
...Becker's pals are equally seedy and greedy. Lee, an unstable banker, knows how to move chunks of funds without a trace. He warns Becker: "I'm fingering you. You're going to the gas chambers with the rest of the sheenies." Annie, a bisexual, swings one way with her .22 pistol, feared by criminals and customers; Michael, the "Fearless Faggot," smokes joints to cover the aroma of gun oil. Only Richard, the electronics wizard, can compute the risks and consequences of a world where dealers and customers, police and victims, live outside...
This year, however, the party seems hard pressed to provide a strong candidate. John Becker, head of Becker Research Corporation, a state-based public opinion firm notes that "if you go back to the '60s and '70s the Republican candidates were well-established Republican leaders." And though Becker will take on duties advising Lakian's campaign, he adds that this year "the Republicans are distinguished primarily by the fact that these are very obscure candidates...
...pollster Becker points out, 31 percent visibility is not very significant and hardly insurmountable...
Unfortunately, Scott makes an abrupt exit after the film's first half-hour, and we are left with his trigger-happy progeny. Director Harold Becker marches the pint-sized terrorists back and forth across the campus, back and forth,back and forth until he is absolutely sure that we see them as soldiers, not as kids. There is endless dialogue about honor and Bache's honor and honoring Bache, as the film deteriorates into a series of tedious confrontations: alarmed parents and stubborn offspring, level-headed National Guard colonel and misguided rebel leader, misguided rebel leader and cynical best friend...