Writer-star Sam Shepard's deliberately enigmatic play still runs like a play, in spite of direction by Robert Altman that alternately opens things out and focuses tightly on the drama. A grubby ranch in the New Mexico desert is run by Harry Dean Stanton, who may be father both to Kim Basinger, who works there, and Shepard, who has come to win her back after past infidelities. Or then again, this may all be just a figment of their imaginations, told by all three to Kim's suitor Randy Quaid. The cast is good - Stanton, in particular, is always worth watching - but the piece itself is slow, symbolic and empty.


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