Word: docs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Quick scenes speak volumes: first, there's the trio, then a baby, then another. Mother Honey Carder (Melinda Dillon) quits the road to care for them and then quits the marriage as Doc's partying gets out of hand. Doc is not lucky in love or money, but some ideas are worse than others a fast-food joint named "Doc Jenkins' Chicken Fried German Food To Go" fails fast...
...Doc's life resembles a far-fetched hard-luck version of the actual Willie Nelson saga, but it is first and foremost a rolling, highly entertaining chronicle of its own. I all of all kinds of deadpan golden nuggets of humor--greasy, love-to-hate-'em Williams; imperfect but irresistable heroes; hard drinking, good friends, good loving, heartache, strumming acoustic guitar accompaniment--the tale can sound too much like your generic hit country song. But as Doc sings, "We write what we live And we live what we write." And Bud Shrake's off-beat, unpretentious script and Man Rudolph...
SCHEMING, CHEATING lawyers, sleazy agents, and proudly ruthless promoters are responsible for the majority of Doc's problems and much of the dizziness of the script. When the narrative actually sets off. Doc has abandoned touring and Blackie to seek greater song-writing profits. But stuck in considerable debt and creatively bankrupt--he has unwittingly sold the rights to his songs--Doc must adopt a tough counter-strategy against the unsavory tactics of Nashville music manager Rodeo Rocky (Richard Sarafian). After an implausibly easy arson job, he takes off to Austin to form his own record label and write songs...
Enter Gilda (Lesley Ann Warren), a singer probably more reminiscent of Vegas glitz than bittersweet ballads, who agrees to front Doc's first song...
Much of the appeal of Songwriter lies in the good-naturedness of the central character. Does Jenkins, unconventional and confident in his talents, can get away with stating "I couldn't hate anybody" without seeming a tool Nelson plays Doc flawlessly: that is, flaw fully: wrinkles, thick headedness, and all. Lined by years of tequila nights and bloody mornings. Nelson's face is perfect for his role. In Songwriter, his fifth movie. Nelson exhibits such case and warmth that the special chemistry he strikes with Kristofferson redeems the more mediocre soundtrack...