Description:Craig Blake lives in his recently deceased parents' mansion outside Birmingham, Alabama. He's in the transitional phase of his life trying to come to terms with himself — past, present, and future. The past includes moving in the rich set and being pestered by guilt about his wealth. The present is defined by a job with some wheelerCraig Blake lives in his recently deceased parents' mansion outside Birmingham, Alabama. He's in the transitional phase of his life trying to come to terms with himself — past, present, and future. The past includes moving in the rich set and being pestered by guilt about his wealth. The present is defined by a job with some wheeler-dealer types who are planning an expensive real-estate deal. Part of his work takes Craig to a downtown health spa he's supposed to purchase. There he meets Joe Santo, an outgoing Austrian body builder, and his athletic girlfriend Mary Tate Farnsworth. She goes for Craig in a big way and leaves Santo to live with him.
About midway through the movie, the story line has a nervous breakdown or, to borrow a term from the body building arena, it becomes muscle-bound. There's plenty of actions — a brawl at a formal country club party; a slam-bang fight at a health spa between Thor, the owner, and Craig; and a surreal sequence where the contestants in the Mr. Universe contest rush out into the streets of Birmingham clad only in their briefs. But despite all this movement, the story gets stuck as Craig tries to assess his real feelings towards Joe and Mary Tate. Does he regard them as friends or has he merely used them as two more unusual experiences in his frantic search for authentic people?... (more)(less)
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