The Big Fix
The Big Fix

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In Los Angeles, Moses Wine, who was part of the counter-culture of the late 1960s at UC-Berkeley, still has those radical feelings but no longer does anything about them. His wife Suzanne, who has transformed from a 1960s hippie to a 1970s new-ageist, divorced him when his law school background didn't materialize into the upper middle class liberal life she was expecting, she having sole custody of their two young sons, with Moses having visitation rights. Moses fell into wor... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in The Big Fix:

Richard Dreyfuss
Susan Anspach
Bonnie Bedelia
John Lithgow
F. Murray Abraham
Ron Rifkin

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In Los Angeles, Moses Wine, who was part of the counter-culture of the late 1960s at UC-Berkeley, still has those radical feelings but no longer does anything about them. His wife Suzanne, who has transformed from a 1960s hippie to a 1970s new-ageist, divorced him when his law school background didn't materialize into the upper middle class liberal life she was expecting, she having sole custody of their two young sons, with Moses having visitation rights. Moses fell into work as a private investigator of the gumshoe variety, which usually doesn't cover his monthly child support payments. After not seeing her for ten years, Moses is contacted by Lila Shea, an old girlfriend from Berkeley, to do some investigative work on behalf of her boss, Sam Sebastian, the Southern California coordinator for the gubernatorial campaign of Congressman Miles Hawthorne. Lila felt Moses would be well suited to the job because of running within "the" crowd at Berkeley, even if only knowing the main players by name and reputation. Flyers have been circulating with a doctored photo of Hawthorne and Howard Eppis in a friendly embrace, Eppis who in the late 1960s was part of the California 4 - the other three being Michael and Wendy Linker, and Luis Vasquez - an anti-establishment group convicted of several counts related to their work against the government. While the Linkers are behind bars probably for the rest of their lives, Luis Vasquez is a free man working for the rights of Mexican laborers, while Eppis has been a fugitive ever since, the authorities who are still looking for him. The flyers, which contain extreme socialist rhetoric and an implication of Hawthorne welcoming Eppis' endorsement, have the potential to derail Hawthorne's campaign. Moses is tasked with finding out who is behind the flyers - the most obvious being the campaign of Hawthorne's competitor, Senator Dillworthy - and if it is indeed not Eppis, why they would have specifically used Eppis' name. Moses accepts the job despite not endorsing Hawthorne - or Dillworthy for that matter - he equating Hawthorne's excitement factor to watching paint dry. The further Moses and Lila get into the investigation, the number of unanswered questions they have grows, and the more people who were associated with Eppis at the time cannot be located, including Oscar Procari, Jr., who funded the California 4's defense probably to spite his industrialist father. With the many trails, Moses and Lila still believe finding Eppis would answer many questions. All the while, Moses tries to rekindle a relationship with Lila. The investigation ends up having a change of focus with the potential for deadly violence on multiple levels and when incidents makes it personal to Moses.

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Examiner.com - 8/10 by Adam LippeThe wonderful irony is that Dreyfuss is able to blackmail all his former revolutionary friends by threatening to tell everyone all the good things they were a part of. No one needs to know that they might actually be decent, upstanding people.
Chicago Sun-Times - 8/10 by Roger Ebert[Dreyfuss is] always on, hyper, eager to get to his next line. He makes a detective we can just about believe, even in an investigation so labyrinthine that you have to see the movie twice to understand what happened.
User Review - 10/10 by d mThis film works on several levels: the '60's activists, the old flame connection, the good old murder myster....all put together with affection and style. The cast is excellent, from Richard Dreyfus on through John Lithgow and Susan Anspach---even the minor characters are well-played. Watch this one and wonder [i]why[/i] it didn't get more play.
User Review - 10/10 by Diana WObscure and my favourite Dreyfuss movie. This movie is still politically relevant and ADORABLE while making a myriad of points. When Lithgow had hair.
User Review - 10/10 by Lee MObscure & under-rated! I love this movie! Look out for the crayons!
User Review - 8/10 by Matthew MI'm partial to any political drama from that deeply cynical post-Watergate era of film making so I was always going to like this. Add Richard Dreyfuss /and/ John Lithgow and now my expectations are way up there. I was not disappointed.
User Review - 6/10 by Private UMixed bag of a film. At it's best when it concentrates on how the 1960s student radical generation adjusts to 1970s life a few years after the radical wave had subsided; often perceptive and insightful. As a private eye story, holds the interest but a convoluted story (as is regularly the case in such films) that isn't particularly easy to follow and doesn't hold up to much scrutiny once you examine it at the end. Worth seeing though with some standout scenes and a good cast; F Murray Abraham is a standout in his brief role.

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