The subtle film""s slogan proclaimed:"Getting there is half he fun.Being there is all of it."The film was directed by Hal Ashby (already known forHarold and Maude (1971),The Last Detail (1973),Shampoo (1975),Bound for Glory (1976),and the acclaimed Vietnam war filmComing Home (1978)).Bert has found consolation with this ""other woman"" and Mildred wonders if he is a philanderer: "She won""t play gin rummy with you anymore.Then one day, he picked up a knife and he never put it down again."On Halloween eve October 30th, the six selected students attended a meeting at the 2400 Court Motel, where they met fast-talking, trashy reality-show media promoter (and kung-fu aficionado) Freddie Harris (Busta Rhymes) and his girlfriend/business partner Nora Winston (Tyra Banks), representing theDangertainment.Director Joseph H.Lewis""s cult picture was taken from aSaturday Evening Poststory by novelist MacKinlay Kantor, and developed from a screenplay by Kantor and blacklisted Dalton Trumbo (credited as Millard Kaufman o hide the fact that he was one of the Hollywood Ten).