Jon M. Benson

A group of friends come of age in the asphalt desert of the San Fernando Valley, as set to a blazing soundtrack and endless drinking, drugs and sex.

A late-1960s teen (Steve Guttenberg) working in a chicken-takeout stand cannot get his mind off his dream-girl (Lisa Reeves).

James Brolin plays a renegade canoeist who illegally runs a river to protest its exploitation by a greedy corporation.