

“Hard times and Good times. Francis and Helen.”
An alcoholic drifter spends Halloween in his hometown of Albany, New York after returning there for the first time in decades.

Jack Nicholson
Francis Phelan
Lead
Meryl Streep
Helen Archer

Carroll Baker
Annie Phelan

Michael O'Keefe
Billy

Diane Venora
Peg

Fred Gwynne
Oscar Reo

Margaret Whitton
Katrina

Tom Waits
Rudy
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