Bobby Dupea (Jack Nicholson in one of his richest performances) works unhappily in an oil field. When his waitress girlfriend (Karen Black) announces she’s pregnant, Bobby quits his job and begins a road trip to see the members of the family he had left behind. “This was the direction American movies should take: Into idiosyncratic characters, into dialogue with an ear for the vulgar and the literate, into a plot free to surprise us about the characters, into an existential ending” -Roger Ebert, RogerEbert.com.