A proud strip club owner is forced to come to terms with himself as a man, when his gambling addiction gets him in hot water with the mob, who offer him only one alternative.
The German Reclams Filmführer calls it "an elegiac movie of dazzling ambiguity".
Leslie Halliwell has a different opinion in his Film Guide: "Another unendurable slab of Cassavetes pretentiousness; why he went on trying, in the face of twenty years of public indifference, is beyond imagining."
DVDBeaver.com is more diplomatic "Typical of Cassavetes' style, the film is relentless in its demands on the viewer, never clearly revealing plot details, but inferring them as if we were a stranger on the diner stool next to the characters."
It is truly hard to watch, it does outstay its welcome. But it does have a plot which is told stringently, just very slow. But as it always is with Cassavetes this is in its core another character study, and the director relies fully on the actors' capability to carry the movie beyond just being merely a picture.
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