After returning home from the war, Vietnam veteran Julius Vrooder resides in a veteran's hospital, where he has been vaguely diagnosed as "psychiatrically impaired." Taking the news with an air of initially lighthearted defiance, Vrooder escapes and sets up camp under a highway, where he builds a paranoia-driven booby-trapped bunker for himself. Falling in love with not-so-bright nurse Zanni, Vrooder soon plans to elope with her to a remote Canadian outpost.
Directed by Arthur Hiller
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Cast

Timothy Bottoms
Vrooder

Barbara Hershey
Zanni (as Barbara Seagull)

George Marshall
Corky

Lawrence Pressman
Passki

Albert Salmi
Splint

Richard Dysart
Father

Dena Dietrich
Mother

Michael Cristofer
Alessini (as Michael Ivan Cristofer)

Jack Colvin
Sergeant

Andrew Duncan
Chaplain

Jack Murdock
Millard

Lou Frizzell
Fowler

Jarion Monroe
Mosby

William Lucking
Harmer
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