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Mackenzie Phillips

posted 9 years ago by tseybert
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Geez Louise! She is so great in this! All smirky and scowly and mad at the world! When she sticks that gun in Alan Arkin's face and tells him to get on the freeway because they're gong to Las Vegas, I knew I was watching a forgotten gem of the 1970s!

Sally Kellerman and Alan Arkin are great as well, but we already knew that. However, Mackenzie steals the show whenever she's on screen. And it leaves me wondering why she didn't have a better career later on.

Janet! Donkeys!

[–] BuffyforQAF 9 years ago

Why didn't she have a better career? Drugs, drugs and more drugs. In her biography from a few years back she is quite open about how drugs destroyed her reputation in Hollywood to the point where few directors would work with her.

[–] ElizabethJoestar (946) 4 years ago

I thought Phillips was the best part of the whole movie. A shame drugs wrecked her career.