Tracy Letts
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It's very much like that.
What's the Oliver Stone movie with Sean Penn, where he's in the little desert town, little noir?
It's basically the plot of U-Turn.
John Derrick is in the Sean Penn role.
Ursula Endress, who was John Derrick's wife at the time.
There was a promise made that John Derrick was going to get her naked for the movie, but that didn't wind up happening.
I'm not sure why, since she certainly was not shy about taking off her clothes in the movies later on.
Duvall and Richard Jekyll show up as these motorcycle guys who are trying to capture John Derrick.
But they're motorcycle guys who are both like...
Balding, blonde-haired guys in cardigan sweaters?
I don't know what accounts for that.
And then there's a scene where Duvall whips his motorcycle with a length of chain in a fit of impotent rage.