On the Nickel (1980)
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The Skid Row derelicts that occupy most of the screen time in this uneven drama about the effects of alcohol addiction do nothing to gain an audience's sympathy. Sam (Donald Moffat) has kicked his habit and picked himself up out of the gutter only to find that no avenues are open to take him away from the gutter. Then he learns that his friend C.G. (Ralph Waite, also the director) is in trouble. As one sequence of aimless, drunken behavior follows another and the audience is regaled by C.G.'s commentaries delivered in an alcoholic stupor, it is hard to understand why Sam is teetering on the brink of sloshing around in this world again. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- Ralph Waite - C.G.
- Hal Williams - Paul
- Jack Kehoe - Bad Mood
- Paul Weaver - Hill
- Jack O'Leary - Big William
- James Gammon - Peanut John
- Bert Conway - Bert
- Tom Mahoney - Robert (Bobby D) Dewey
- Lane Smith - Preacher
- Gayle Vance - Sister Beatrice
- Patrick Tovatt
- Hirsch Adell
- John Ryan
- Charles Comfort
- Cecil Jordan
- Sosimo
- Steve Tucker
- Donald Moffat - Sam
- Penelope Allen - Rose
- Dan Ades - God Bless
- Ina Gould - Estelle
- Cano Graham - Silver
- Arthur Space - Kine (Soapy) Post
- Jaime Sanchez - Joe (S.S.I.) Cartitia
- Edmund Villa - Henry
- Ellen Geer - Sister Louise
- Nathan Adler
- Melvin Allen
- Herb Evans
- Dr. Peter Alsop
- Kerry Shear Waite
- Allen Buck
- Frank Savino
- LeRoy Wheeler
- Director(s):
- Ralph Waite, Robert Waite
- Writer(s):
- Ralph Waite, Robert Waite
- Producer(s):
- Ralph Waite, Robert Waite
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