(imdb)DEATH DRUG-1978-Nice guy plumber and aspiring musician Jesse (Phillip Michael Thomas) is accepted by a music conservatory but two record producers convince him to forget that because he's going to be bigger than Donna Summers and The Bee Gees. He has a real meltdown Shatner style, while at a nursing home visiting his father who's rejected him because he wouldn't be a doctor. Later we hear from a TV broadcast that Jesse has hit the big time with his new album ("The kids love it!").
Unfortunately, he starts smoking angel dust and imagines his hairbrush is an alligator! He can't function at work (apparently not big enough yet to quit his day job) so he goes to his pusher to score. His assistant keeps his stash in the handle of his tennis racket. Later he gets very paranoid and attacks his boss and abuses his girlfriend. At a session with The Gap Band, he imagines they are making fun of him and rants at his producers ("Don't Mess With Me!") and winds up losing his contract. When his girlfriend gets pregnant her doctor (Rosalind Cash) takes her on a tour of PCP ward. Later Jesse tries to reform but freaks out in a supermarket and attacks an oncoming truck. Cut to a newscaster who informs us Jesse has been struck and killed by a truck.
The newscast turns into a drug lecture. Girlfriend has her kid. 5 years later she and son (both dressed in white) visit Jesse's grave where she breaks down and the credits roll. Then Thomas comes back to speak again.
What a mess!
And DJ Frankie Crocker plays a drug dealer. Bad everything scare film. Director Oscar Williams also made THE FINAL COMEDOWN (1972) with Bill Dee Williams.
Thanks for reading!
No comments:
Post a Comment