When Vince was released early from prison after serving 14 months, the prison warden gave him $54 dollars (what was left to be owed to him by the state).At the breakfast table was the all-American Walsh family:husband Ken Walsh (Clu Gulager)wife Cheryl Walsh (Hope Lange)precocious 11 year-old daughter Angela (Christie Clark)teenaged 17 year-old son Jesse (Mark Patton) (upstairs)Angela was eating Fu Man Chews cereal, and reaching for the box""s prize - five extra-long plastic fingernail tips.Told with inventive, stylized, timeless and darkfilm noirishimages, symbolism and visual poetry, it blends both a pastoral setting with dream-like creatures, fanatical characters, imperiled children during a river journey, a wicked guardian/adult, and salvation and redemption in the form of a old farm woman (a ""fairy godmother"") rather than from a saintly but devilish Bible-totin"" Preacher.While Ted continued to smoke dope and watch the stag flick by himself in the living room, Sara and Doug were naked together in the upstairs shower.The younger American, named Curtin (B-movie actor Tim Holt), asks the mangy American drifter Dobbs how many centavos are left between them and wonders whether they can afford a bed in a cockroach-infested flophouse.