Jason fell backwards to the floor, landing on his back.Tranquilized, Jason entered a dream world, where he heard the voice of his raging mother again -- and found himself in Freddy""s boiler room.He""ll make it tough on you, but he""ll draw himself a line he thinks fair and he won""t come over it.You don""t see many top kicks like him no more...All I know is, he""s the best soldier I ever saw.The whole outfit at the base accepts Prewitt""s dare and makes life difficult for the hard-headed, introspective soldier.Rocking on their old farmhouse wooden porch swing, both his wife Annie (Amy Madigan) and daughter Karin (six year-old Gaby Hoffman in her film debut) were unable to hear what Ray was claiming.As he drives by a cemetery, he reveals that he is a serial killer on an earthly mission who receives divine inspirations o first marry, and then murder and rob vain and wicked women (usually rich lonely widows who do not see the menacing perversity in him):Well now, what""s it to be Lord? Another widow? How many has it been? Six? Twelve? I disremember.[Note: Hiller had passed up the opportunity to work onThe Godfather (1972)to make this film.] The melodramatic and ragic soap-opera, tremendously popular and a financial success (the top-earning film of the year at $106 million) but panned by critics for its sappy content, was based upon Erich Segal""s # 1 best-selling short novel of the same name, released appropriately on Valentine""s Day in 1970.