The highs and lows of the film were accentuated beautifully by Leonard Rosenman""s expressive musical score.Activate it, and we become nothing.Leave it, and its very presence will ensure that at least we remain something, and may become something better.He tells the Commissioner at the Yard that he was a long-time admirer of Paula""s aunt: "I once met Alice Alquist.He walked over to the capped, metal-lined well, and had flashbacked memories to the day of the nuclear blast when he had saved Ichiro Yashida, Mariko""s grandfather.The R-rated Paramount Pictures film followed the dual stories of an aging, small-time hood and a struggling oyster-bar waitress both living in the same, soon-to-be-torn-down apartment building just off the Boardwalk in the casino town of the film""s title.