It's hard to stay. It's hard to leave.

Sometimes a woman has to leave the man she loves... to find herself.

The loving was easy. It's the leaving that's hard.


Jan-Michael Vincent stars as Kyle Richardson, who works at a dead-end job in a Texas chain-link fence factory. In the tradition of such earlier films as Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, Richardson enjoys himself only on weekends when he whoops it up with his buddies at the local saloon. His carousing exacts a toll on his relationship with Jodie Lynn Palmer (Kim Basinger, in her film debut). Finally, Jodie delivers an ultimatum: either settle down and get married, or she'll skeedaddle to California, there to try her luck as a country-western singer. Real-life C&W star Tanya Tucker co-stars as Jodie's best friend and role model.


Release Date: May 1981

Distrib: Universal


Boxoffice: $534,653 2013: $1,527,000