Hard Country

Drama about a small-town boy who works hard by day and parties by night, but is in danger of losing his discontented girlfriend to the bright lights of California. The film features Kim Basinger’s debut performance as the girlfriend, and real-life country and western singer Tanya Tucker as her best friend, Tough story about a girl who has a dream of life beyond the small Texas town where she lives., Jan-Michael Vincent as a factory worker whose fiancee (Kim Basinger) yearns for a more exciting life. Michael Parks, Tanya Tucker, Gailard Sartain. Wesley: Ted Neeley. Mama: Sierra Pecheur. Daddy: John Chappell., 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.