The Loveless

Director: Kathryn Bigelow and Monty Montgomery
Year Released: 1981
Rating: 2.0

Ex-convict Vance (Willem Dafoe, in his first starring role) gathers with his fellow bikers at a diner in some nowhere town before they ride off for Florida - while there, the guys (and gals) mostly hang around, smoke cigarettes, chug soda (and booze) and then Vance goes for a drive in a 1960 Chevy Corvette with troubled pixie Telena (Marin Kanter), they have sex at a motel and then her perverted father Tarver (J. Don Ferguson) breaks in and whisks her away.  Since there's virtually no story here and even less conversation (Dafoe spends a great deal of time staring into the void) all that's there is a lot of period detail (in order to emulate the 1950's) and "macho" posturing, and it takes until the final precious few minutes for anything to actually happen.  As Bigelow's co-directorial debut, it already shows her prowess as a stylist - more substantial scripts (like Strange Days and Zero Dark Thirty) would come in the following decades.