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Nick's Comedy Stop. 482-0930. Steve Sweeney...
...also praised Hall and the presentheadmaster, Robert R. Sweeney. "They're mentorsand they keep in close touch with their students...
...they [students] want to go to college andbeyond, we're glad to have them come and be withus as long as they need to be," Sweeney said."While we hold to college preparatory standards,we are relatively flexible with deficiencies...
...Sweeney (James Caan) is a Fagan-like character, who uses his young Oliveresque son Arlis (played by Jerry Swindall as a child and by Dennis Quaid as an adult) to break into and steal from people's homes. The scheme is this: a family finds a mute, apparently lost child on its doorstep one day, and takes him in. While asleep, the young Arlis creeps downstairs to let his father in, and together, they loot the house, sneaking off into the night...
Thirty years later, the now much older Arlis Sweeney still hears the crying of that baby in his nightmares. Arlis deals novelty vending machines in Texas, travelling from site to site in his pickup and sleeping in road-side motels. Fate brings him together wit a runaway housewife, Kay Davies (Meg Ryan), with whom he eventually falls in love and takes on as a travelling-companion and lover. It is only when he discovers that Kay is that baby whose family his father slaughtered so long ago that the entire gravitas of the situation propels the story crazily forward...