I mean he actually enjoyed it.Jimmy was the kind of guy who rooted for the bad guys in the movies.Jimmy""s real love is theft - during a hijacking/robbery of the driver of a trailer truck in a deserted area near the airport at night, he intimidates the man after looking at his driver""s license: "You might know who we are, but we know who you are, you understand?" Jimmy was one of the city""s biggest hijackers of "booze, cigarettes, razor blades, shrimp and lobsters.That""s all a guy needs is o get hooked up with a woman...A guy has a woman on his hands.The first thing you know is, his life is balled up in a lot more hings.Furniture...John soon becomes uneasy with the manufactured role and the whole phenomenon when he realizes that he may never be able o play big-league baseball again, even if his arm is treated, if people discover his fakery: ".He was living the materialistic, suburban "American dream," although his life was quietly-desperate and miserable.During showings, audience members arrived in cross-dressing lingerie, danced in the aisles, and participated in a song-along.Film Notables (Awards, Facts, etc.)With a production budget of $54 million, and box-office gross receipts of $108 million (domestic).Warner Bros.released the film in Europe at the end of 1980, but waited about seven months later to release it in the summer of 1981 in the US.