The story is basically that of the Jean-Luc Godard picture upon which it is based, but instead of a French guy pursuing an American gal in Paris, here we have an American guy pursuing a French gal in L.A.. Jesse Lujack (Richard Gere), a charming but larcenous hustler, steals a car from a casino parking lot in Vegas and high-tails it to L.A. to hook up with Monica (Valerie Kaprisky), a French exchange student he’d spent the previous weekend with. But on the way, he unintentionally kills a highway patrolman. Will Jesse make it out of Los Angeles with Monica before the law can catch up with him?
The soundtrack features artists like The Pretenders, Robert Fripp, Brian Eno, Elvis Presley, Sam Cooke, Jerry Lee Lewis, Bob Dylan, Philip Glass, X, and is one of its driving forces.
Cinema VA-114