Peter Fonda stars as Evan Bonner, an American deserter returning to face the music at home after a long sojourn in Morocco, in this oddly out of character and very low-key Robert Wise-helmed drama. Evan meets fellow American Deirdre McCluskey (Lindsay Wagner) on a train trip to Casablanca when she asks him if he has any wacky tobacky she can buy from him, and their star-crossed romance begins to bud, reaching fruition in Paris. Fonda's performance is extremely restrained and he spends much of the film wearing a sheepish grin, which is perhaps appropriate as there are tons of REAL sheep featured in the Moroccan scenes. The film is very much of its time and suffers from an undernourished screenplay by TV scribe Richard De Roy as well as from a fairly dreadful, movie-of-the-week score from a quite young David Shire. Even Henri Decae's cinematography isn't up to snuff, but that may be the fault of the washed out pan and scan print recently aired on IFC. Considering the level of talent involved in this picture, Two People really should be a lot better than it is, but is harmless enough.
Review of Two People
