The Last Detail (1973)
Directed by Hal Ashby
Two Navy men are ordered to bring a young offender to prison, but decide to show him one last good time along the way.
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What critics compared The Last Detail to
As “The Holdovers” morphs from miserablist odd-couple comedy to bittersweet road movie, it aims to remind you, sometimes with a hard nudge, of Hal Ashby classics like “Harold and Maude” and “The Last Detail”; an argument with a waitress automatically nods to Bob Rafelson's “Five Easy Pieces.”
I can’t really see a connection to The Last Detail, the 1973 release in this 4-film Ashby run.
Inasmuch as Tony wants to be a scruffy, 1970s-style antihero drama, in the manner of The Last Detail or Scarecrow, it has the right face for it…
As a road trip movie, it's like The Last Detail done wateryand the two are at last joined by Eleanor, who worked at the nursing home where Zak lived.
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Together with Laurence Fishburne’s Reverend Richard Mueller, the three protagonists of Last Flag Flying are more or less supposed to be the 2003 versions of the trio from The Last Detail , Hal Ashby’s 1973 masterpiece about the aimless present and daunting future of three Navy officers who realize just how expendable they are.
"Scent" resembles movies such as "The Last Detail" and "My Favorite Year," in which a swaggery, larger-than-life personality shows a greenhorn how to really live.