Rod Gist

Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling is about a well-known comedian at the peak of his popularity and the bottom rung of his self-esteem. When he buckles under the pressures of success, he takes time to reflect on his life.

Burned-out beach-bum Richard Bone (Jeff Bridges) and his best friend, disfigured Vietnam veteran Alex Cutter (John Heard), stumble on a murder cover-up involving a powerful landowner in director Ivan Passer's brooding crime thriller. But Bone gets more than he bargained for when Cutter insists on blackmailing the suspect, who forces them into a cunning cat-and-mouse game that ignites a full-blown war. Lisa Eichhorn plays Cutter's neglected wife.