Born to Win
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Born to Win

1971
★★

Watched 07 Dec 2021

1971 In Review - December
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J. (George Segal) used to be a hairdresser, but now he's found a new profession: heroin junkie. On the mean streets of New York City, he scrounges for his next fix -- mooching from his best friend, Billy Dynamite (Jay Fletcher), and doing odd jobs for a drug dealer known as The Geek. But J. soon finds it more lucrative to work as an informer to the police. Meanwhile, he begins a tenuous romance with Parm (Karen Black), a woman he met while trying to steal her car.

Drama about the hardships of a junkie whose addiction ruins his chance at having a normal life and has him involved in crime life just to get his fix. The screenplay is second rate, and it makes the whole film look weak, particularly in comparison to the better films that were coming out during the same period and that were built around the same subject. Watching it now it’s incredibly dated and I think that this film is more notable for a cameo by Robert De Niro, but it’s not worth watching just for him, he is only in one scene.

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