The Last Detail

The Last Detail is a Hal Ashby film whose modern DVD cover sadly does not stand up to the feel of the 1973 movie, which is why I wanted to remake it.


Jack Nicholson plays a fantastically crude Navy guard set with the task of transporting another sailor to Naval Prison for petty ($40) theft. So he decides to take some detours along the way. However there's much more to the movie, as one slightly wordy reviewer says:

"The Last Detail" is a sadly overlooked but superb blend of pathos, ribald bittersweet humor, hard-edged '70s realism and insightful and subtle human drama. A work that says something to all of us by merely focusing upon a small "detail" of a sadly overlooked and unappreciated decade that was alternately (and simultaneously) bleak yet hopeful."

So here is my attempt to get all those vocab words into a DVD cover that I'd proudly put on my staff picks shelf at Waterfront Video.