The Big Fix (1978 film)

The Big Fix is a 1978 film about an ex-'60s radical now working as a private eye who is hired by an old flame to investigate a political smear campaign. The case becomes more dangerous as it unfolds.
 * Directed by Jeremy Kagan. Written by Roger L. Simon, based on his novel.

Moses Wine

 * Bakunin? Bakunin was a terrorist monster. You are not an authority on Bakunin just because you used to date every terrorist in Soviet Russia, that does not make you an authority.

Howard Eppis

 * Do you know why being a revolutionary doesn't work in this country? Being a revolutionary in America is like being a spoil sport at an orgy. All these goodies being passed around and you feel like a shit when you say no.


 * Hey, man! I can write copy faster than any alcoholic on this floor!

Dialogue

 * Moses Wine: The last I saw you, we were in the back of a Chrysler hearse.
 * Lila Shea: Cadillac hearse.
 * Moses Wine: Cadillac hearse, across from People's Park.
 * Lila Shea: ...making love.
 * Moses Wine: Why didn't I ever see you again?
 * Lila Shea: Oh, at that time, I thought monogamy was a male conspiracy.
 * Moses Wine: Ohhhh, what about now?
 * Lila Shea: Now, I am sure it is!

Cast

 * Richard Dreyfuss - Moses Wine
 * Susan Anspach - Lila Shea
 * Bonnie Bedelia - Suzanne
 * John Lithgow - Sam Sebastian
 * Ofelia Medina - Alora
 * Nicolas Coster - Spitzer
 * F. Murray Abraham - Howard Eppis
 * Fritz Weaver - Oscar Procari, Sr.
 * Ron Rifkin - Randy Esterhaus