The Boost (1988)

The Boost (1988)

  • 4.0
  • 95 mins
  • Drama

Storyline

Struggling salesman Lenny Brown (James Woods) gets his big break when real estate speculator Max Sherman (Steven Hill) offers him a prime sales position at his Los Angeles firm. The economic boom of the mid-1980s soon has Lenny and his wife, Linda (Sean Young), living in the fast lane, but when a sudden tax-law change causes the real estate bubble to burst, Lenny finds himself unemployed and in debt. At this low point, the couple's once-casual cocaine habit begins to spiral out of control.



Short Review

Whenever he Is on screen Woods turns a B-movie melodrama about human waste Into a humming psycho-drama.


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