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5.1The new owner of a roadside diner stuck in a town built around an always leaking nuclear power plant plans to torch the place to collect insurance. However, an assortment of bizarre characters and weird events (such as spaceships flying around) gets in his way.
Released: 1982-09-1088 minDir: Neil YoungScience Fiction, Comedy, Drama
Cast
- Neil Young as Lionel Switch / Frankie Fontaine
- Dean Stockwell as Otto Quartz
- Dennis Hopper as Cracker / Stranger
- Sally Kirkland as Kathryn
- Russ Tamblyn as Fred Kelly
- Charlotte Stewart as Charlotte Goodnight
Themes
- post-apocalyptic future
- dark comedy