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Classic Movie Scenes: "Who'll Stop The Rain"

"People are just naturally going to want to get high ..."

Here is another in my series of classic movie scenes. This one is from the beginning of the movie, "Who'll Stop the Rain" with Nick Nolte and Tuesday Weld.

This is a classic movie scene because it dramatically presents one of the best psychological and philosophical explanations about the nature of life and why people need to "get high" that I have ever seen in any movie, or anywhere else, for that matter.

Like all the movies from my "Classic Movie Scenes" series, this one is a must see.

This is a description from Wikipedia:

Who'll Stop The Rain is a 1978 psychological drama film released by United Artists starring Nick Nolte. It was directed by Karel Reisz and produced by Herb Jaffe and Gabriel Katzka with Sheldon Schrager and Roger Spottiswoode as executive producers. The screenplay was by Judith Rascoe and Robert Stone from Stone's novel "Dog Soldiers." The music score was by Laurence Rosenthal and the cinematography by Richard H. Kline.

Plot:

The film opens in Saigon at the height of the Vietnam War.
John Converse (Moriarty), a disillusioned war correspondent, approaches Ray Hicks (Nolte), a merchant marine sailor and acquaintance of Converse's from the US, for help in smuggling a large quantity of heroin from Vietnam to San Francisco, where he will exchange the drugs for payment with Converse's wife Marge (Weld), who has become addicted to Dilaudid. When Hicks discovers he is being followed by thugs connected either to Converse or his suppliers, he goes on the run with Marge and the heroin, and is eventually pursued by the corrupt DEA agent (Zerbe), who initially set the deal in motion. As Marge is separated from her supply of prescription drugs, she experiences withdrawal, and Hicks decides to help her wean off her dilaudid addiction by using the heroin. Hicks also attempts to find another buyer for the heroin before his pursuers can catch up to him.