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New York City, New York, USA. 1968 Lyndon B. Johnson is President and the war in Vietnam is broadcast daily on the six o'clock news. Society makes little sense to friends Paul Shaw (Jonathan Warden),…
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New York City, New York, USA. 1968 Lyndon B. Johnson is President and the war in Vietnam is broadcast daily on the six o'clock news. Society makes little sense to friends Paul Shaw (Jonathan Warden), Lloyd Clay (Gerrit Graham), and Jon Rubin (Robert De Niro), three young New Yorkers whom are numb to the daily uncensored broadcasts of combat in Vietnam on the TV. It becomes more confusing when Paul receives his draft notice. Jon and Lloyd advise him how to flunk the pre-induction physical. He must purport to be either a right-wing militant or a homosexual. While Paul waits to be drafted, he tries to overcome his broken-off affair by going on a series of computer dates. The sex-crazed lad goes out with a Bronx secretary (Ashley Oliver), a gay divorcee (Cynthia Peltz), and a mystic (Mona Feit). Jon is a confirmed voyeur who takes films of unsuspecting for his Peeping Tom collection. He goes around telling strange women that he is doing a series of voyeuristic studies for the Whitney Museum and persuading them to disrobe in front of his camera. He manages to get a shoplifter named Linda (Ruth Alda) to strip for him. While he explains the fantasy he wants enacted, he can't see that another woman is doing exactly what he wants the woman he's with to do. Lloyd is convinced that the Warren Commission report on John F. Kennedy's assassination has come to the wrong conclusion. He is more sure that more then one sniper killed Kennedy in Dallas, Texas back in November 1963 and spends all his time trying to prove his theory about a greater conspiracy, but without success. He studies photos of the scene of the assassination, blows up pictures, even traces bullet trajectories on the nude body of his girlfriend. Paul gets out of the draft. He ends up as an actor in hardcore porno movies... the ideal outlet for someone with his craving for sex. Lloyd is killed on his way to the Statue of Liberty. The local media report the murder to be the work of a lone, crazed maniac. However, it is never explained if Lloyd's killing was a coincidence, or a conspiracy to stop Lloyd's investigation. Jon is sent to Vietnam. He is interviewed in a rice paddy by a TV news crew covering the war. He cuts off the interview to try to persuade a Viet Cong female he spots to remove clothes and act out his fantasies. In the final scene, back home in the USA, President Johnson comes on television where he announces: "We've never had it so good."
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New York City, New York, USA. 1968 Lyndon B. Johnson is President and the war in Vietnam is broadcast daily on the six o'clock news.
Society makes little sense to friends Paul Shaw (Jonathan Warden), Lloyd Clay (Gerrit Graham), and Jon Rubin (Robert De Niro), three young New Yorkers whom are numb to the daily uncensored broadcasts of combat in Vietnam on the TV. It becomes more confusing when Paul receives his draft notice. Jon and Lloyd advise him how to flunk the pre-induction physical.
He must purport to be either a right-wing militant or a homosexual. While Paul waits to be drafted, he tries to overcome his broken-off affair by going on a series of computer dates. The sex-crazed lad goes out with a Bronx secretary (Ashley Oliver), a gay divorcee (Cynthia Peltz), and a mystic (Mona Feit).
Jon is a confirmed voyeur who takes films of unsuspecting for his Peeping Tom collection. He goes around telling strange women that he is doing a series of voyeuristic studies for the Whitney Museum and persuading them to disrobe in front of his camera. He manages to get a shoplifter named Linda (Ruth Alda) to strip for him.
While he explains the fantasy he wants enacted, he can't see that another woman is doing exactly what he wants the woman he's with to do. Lloyd is convinced that the Warren Commission report on John F. Kennedy's assassination has come to the wrong conclusion.
He is more sure that more then one sniper killed Kennedy in Dallas, Texas back in November 1963 and spends all his time trying to prove his theory about a greater conspiracy, but without success. He studies photos of the scene of the assassination, blows up pictures, even traces bullet trajectories on the nude body of his girlfriend. Paul gets out of the draft.
He ends up as an actor in hardcore porno movies... the ideal outlet for someone with his craving for sex. Lloyd is killed on his way to the Statue of Liberty.
The local media report the murder to be the work of a lone, crazed maniac. However, it is never explained if Lloyd's killing was a coincidence, or a conspiracy to stop Lloyd's investigation. Jon is sent to Vietnam.
He is interviewed in a rice paddy by a TV news crew covering the war. He cuts off the interview to try to persuade a Viet Cong female he spots to remove clothes and act out his fantasies. In the final scene, back home in the USA, President Johnson comes on television where he announces: "We've never had it so good.".