Drive, He Said

film by Nicholson [1971]

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"Drive, He Said" is a 1971 film directed by and co-written by Jack Nicholson. The movie is a satirical look at college basketball and the counterculture of the era. It stars William Tepper as a talented but unmotivated basketball player and Karen Black as his girlfriend. The film also features Bruce Dern as a coach.

Nicholson, known for his versatile portrayals of unconventional characters, also co-wrote the screenplay for "Drive, He Said". The film is part of his early career, which included writing credits for other films like "Head" and "The Trip".12

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Terrence Malick
…as an uncredited writer on Drive, He Said (1971), directed by Jack Nicholson. His own directorial debut, Badlands (1973), which he also scripted, starred Martin Sheen as a small-town hoodlum who persuades a naive teenage girl (played by Sissy Spacek) to run away with him as he embarks on a…
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…as an uncredited writer on Drive, He Said (1971), directed by Jack Nicholson. His own directorial debut, Badlands (1973), which he also scripted, starred Martin Sheen as a small-town hoodlum who persuades a naive teenage girl (played by Sissy Spacek) to run away with him as he embarks on a…
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Bob Rafelson
Films of the 1960s and early 1970s
… (1971), directed by Henry Jaglom; Drive, He Said (1971), directed by Nicholson; the Academy Award-winning documentary about the Vietnam War Hearts and Minds (1974); and, most notably, Peter Bogdanovich’s much-revered The Last Picture Show (1971), for which Rafelson served as an uncredited producer. BBS also produced Rafelson’s follow-up as a…
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… (1971), directed by Henry Jaglom; Drive, He Said (1971), directed by Nicholson; the Academy Award-winning documentary about the Vietnam War Hearts and Minds (1974); and, most notably, Peter Bogdanovich’s much-revered The Last Picture Show (1971), for which Rafelson served as an uncredited producer. BBS also produced Rafelson’s follow-up as a…
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