This is a heavy emotional brew from director Nic Roeg and writer Dennis Potters first collaboration. A spaced-out English lad (the immensely talented Gary Oldman) hitchhikes into the life of dotty North Carolina housewife Linda as her long lost son Or is he? This is a dangerous tale that flirts with taboos and lays them out almost as surreally as does David lynch. We are never quite sure if all the nastiness here (told in flashbacks and dreamy sequences) is genuine, or a product of Lindas shattering sanity.
Inventive, at times torturous, this a film that sees both Potter and Roeg firmly on form.