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	William Tepper	Hector
	Karen Black	Olive
	Michael Margotta	Gabriel
	Bruce Dern	Coach Bullion
	Robert Towne	Richard
	Henry Jaglom	Conrad
	Michael Warren	Easly
	June Fairchild	Sylvie
	Don Hanmer	Director of Athletics
	Lynette Bernay	Dance Instructor
	Joseph Walsh	Announcer #1
	Harry Gittes	Announcer #2
	Charles Robinson	Jollop
	Bill Sweek	Finnegan
	David Ogden Stiers	Pro Owner
	B.J. Merholz	Pro Lawyer
	Mireille Machu	Secretary
	Kenneth Payne	President Wallop
	Cathy Bradford	Rosemary
	Eric Johnson	PFC. Johnson
	Bill Kenney	Phoneman
	Leonard Lookabaugh	Policeman
	Clyde Crawford	M.P.
	Mark Malinauskas	Psychiatrist
	Douglas McKenzie	Doctor #1

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Director	Jack Nicholson
Writer	Jeremy Larner, Jack Nicholson, Terrence Malick, Robert Towne
Producer	Steve Blauner, Harry Gittes, Jack Nicholson, Fred Roos, Bert Schneider
Musician	David Shire
Photography	Bill Butler

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Part of: America Lost and Found - The BBS Story boxset

Like the rest of America, Hollywood was ripe for revolution in the late sixties. Cinema attendance was down; what had once worked seemed broken. Enter Bob Rafelson, Bert Schneider, and Steve Blauner, who knew that what Hollywood needed was new audiences-namely, young people-and that meant cultivating new talent and new ideas. Fueled by money from their invention of the superstar TV pop group the Monkees, they set off on a film-industry journey that would lead them to form BBS Productions, a company that was also a community. The innovative films produced by this team between 1968 and 1972 are collected in this box set-works that now range from the iconic (Easy Rider, Five Easy Pieces, The Last Picture Show) to the acclaimed (The King of Marvin Gardens) to the obscure (Head; Drive, He Said; A Safe Place), all created within the studio system but lifted right out of the countercultural id.

Drive, He Said
Fresh off of his Five Easy Pieces success, Jack Nicholson mounted his enormously irreverent directorial debut. Based on the best-selling novel by Jeremy Larner, Drive, He Said, free-spirited and sobering by turns, is a sketch of the exploits of a disaffected college basketball player (William Tepper) and his increasingly radical roommate (Michael Margotta), as well as a feverishly shot and edited snapshot of the early seventies (some of it was filmed during an actual campus protest). Fueled by Vietnam-era anxieties and perched on the edge of utter insanity, Nicholson’s audacious comedy (also starring Bruce Dern and Karen Black) is a startling howl direct from the zeitgeist.

SPECIAL FEATURES
New, restored high-definition digital transfer, supervised by director Jack Nicholson, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
A Cautionary Tale of Campus Revolution and Sexual Freedom, a 2009 video piece featuring Nicholson
Theatrical trailer
English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

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