On a trip to San Francisco to compete for a music grant, a young researcher meets a zany college dropout. Their unpredictable and wacky relationship adds to the antics of the film when four identical plaid bags go missing with valuable contents in them.
Peter Bogdanovich's genre worship reached its pinnacle with his Last Picture Show follow-up, What's Up, Doc? (1972). Here, for the first and only time, he outdoes his idols, fashioning a screwball comedy that's more fun, charming, and astonishing than Howard Hawks' hallowed Bringing Up Baby.
