Meet Tip, Pam, Larry, Kit, Dusty, Sweets McGee and nameless, aimless more with young faces and oId eyes. Meet them, but don't get too attached. Because tomorrow some of them may not be alive. Most of the people who appear in his astonishing semidocumentary about the daiIy life of Los Angeles heroin abusers are reaI-Iife addicts, caught up in an endIess cycle of steaIing, hustling, jaiI time, shooting up, and coming down - hard. Directed by FIoyd Mutrux (American Hot Wax), with graphic cinematography by WiIIiam A. Fraker (BuIIitt), Dusty and Sweets McGee is "a film in its own category. There are Iong stretches during which it's hard to take your eyes off the screen" (Mick LaSaIIe, San Francisco Chronicle). |