Let It Ride
Joe Pytka's comedy stars Richard Dreyfuss as Trotter, a cab driver who gets a hot tip on a horse race and soon finds himself on the gambling hot streak of his life.
Director: Joe Pytka
Starring: Richard Dreyfuss, David Johansen, Teri Garr, Jennifer Tilly, Allen Garfield
Let It Ride looks good in a low-key way, and Giorgio Moroder's eclectic, funky mood-setting score is crucial in helping maintain tone as well as pace.
Let It Ride has atmosphere, plus a good setting, appealing actors - and a bad script.
Let It Ride looks like it was vastly overshot and overwritten, then whittled down to something which resembles a movie but is really a long commercial for the joys of the racetrack.
It's as beautifully acted throughout as it is photographed, and it has a quizzical tone somewhere between sociological documentary and farce.
Pytka may know how to push fizzy water, but he certainly can't make a punch line sparkle.
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