Dogfight is a 1991 period coming-of-age drama film set in San Francisco, California, during the 1960s and directed by Nancy Savoca. [2] The film explores the love between an 18-year-old Marine, Lance Corporal Eddie Birdlace (River Phoenix), on his way to Vietnam, and a young woman, Rose Fenny (Lili Taylor). [3] [4]

Dogfight: Directed by Nancy Savoca. With River Phoenix, Lili Taylor, Richard Panebianco, Anthony Clark. Before leaving to fight in Vietnam, a group of teenagers play a game where they try to seduce the ugliest girl they can find.

Oct 5, 1991 · In “Dogfight,” River Phoenix engages in an unsavory contest to see who can ensnare the ugliest girl for a date, which accidentally leads to an unlikely romance with unwitting contestant Lili...

The gentle rapport between actors Lili Taylor and River Phoenix fuels this humane examination of American masculinity, a film that showcases the nuanced and compassionate approach of director Nancy Savoca.

Apr 30, 2024 · When director Nancy Savoca won the Sundance Film Festival for her first feature, the New York–set wedding drama True Love, she was flooded with scripts, “most of which had girl or Jersey or...

Jan 1, 2025 · It’s called a “Dogfight”—the women being the “dogs,” if you haven’t guessed—and one of them, Corporal Eddie Birdlace (River Phoenix), is shit out of luck finding a date. That is, until he meets Rose (Lili Taylor), a wannabe folk songstress who waits tables at a …

Apr 30, 2024 · Nancy Savoca’s 1991 drama, digitally restored and arriving April 30 in a Blu-ray special edition from the Criterion Collection, defies genre expectations at every turn.

Dec 16, 2024 · Setting the story in San Francisco during the day prior to the Kennedy assassination on November 21, 1963, Savoca and writer Bob Comfort weave an unsentimental period piece. Dogfight reveals pretenses of gender, poignantly examines surrendered innocence, and tenderly hones in on the ineffaceable connection between two people who’ve yet to ...

May 6, 2024 · Released in 1991, when nostalgia for the ’60s was near its peak, Nancy Savoca’s film takes a distinctly feminine perspective on the era, challenging the unbridled machismo and ritualistic behaviors that were often celebrated, or at least unexamined, in …

Apr 23, 2024 · Nancy Savoca’s 1991 gem Dogfight, a story of a Marine recruit’s last night stateside before shipping out to Vietnam in 1963—and the young aspiring folkie with whom he strikes up an unlikely romance—isn’t a typical war movie, featuring as …