Cannery Row
You don't have to be crazy to live here... but it helps.
Doc, who has just moved to Cannery Row, realizes that the only entertainment is the brothel. There he meets the spunky Suzy and they fall in love, giving them both a renewed chance at life.
Status
Released
Original Language
EN
Budget
$11,300,000
Revenue
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Release Date
February 12, 1982
Popularity
1
Director
David S. Ward
Writer
David S. Ward
Producer
Michael Phillips
Where to Watch
Cast
Nick Nolte
Doc
Debra Winger
Suzy DeSoto
Audra Lindley
Fauna Flood
Frank McRae
Hazel
M. Emmet Walsh
Mack
Tom Mahoney
Hughie
John Malloy
Jones
James Keane
Eddie
Sunshine Parker
The Seer
Santos Morales
Joseph and Mary
John Huston
Narrator
Ellen Blake
Wisteria
Sharon Ernster
Agnes
Kathleen Doyle
Violet
Mary Margaret Amato
Lola
Brenda Hillhouse
Martha
Mariko Tse
Blossom
Colleen O'Grady
The Pitcher
Tona Dodd
Golden Poppy Waitress
Judy Kerr
Beer Milkshake Waitress
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Reviews
Phills2
I'm afraid I speak for quite a few fans of the late Nobel winning novelist's book to say this film simply doesn't do his work justice. Just too many changes were made to fit a more Hollywood style formula comedy romance. It also was frustrating to see Sweet Thursday, his least successful book, combined and used more in the film. The new things added by director-wruter Ward seemed to have no purpose We have a trumpet playing Chinatown style while a hat floats in the water. Apparently a character named the Seer has drowned and he was hurt by Doc when he used to be prize fighter (or was it a baseball player?} Why on earth this was added to the movie still is a mystery to me. Mr. Ward now teaches screenwriter at Chapman College. God help his students if they write more films like this one. Doc and Suzy alternately dance and fight, oh, where on earth in the novels was that or why was it needed?
