A whole crew of good actors is shipwrecked in a sea of precious dialogue in this look at 1969, flower power, Vietnam protests and all that. Mind you, Kiefer Sutherland, Winona Ryder and Mariette Hartley look good even when speaking these lines. Robert Downey Jr has to tackle yet another bag-eyed loner pressing the self-destruct button, while Bruce Dern and Joanna Cassidy fare even less well trying to express an adulterous relationship the whole town knows about. The plot, alas, never flows with any fluency, and did anyone really say, especially back then : 'This is the last year of our innocence'? And would anyone have wanted to know them if they did? No matter. Not even this script could prevent Sutherland, Downey and Ryder becoming major stars of the Nineties.

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