A suicide - obsessed rich kid (Bud Cort) and free - spirited elder (Ruth Gordon) meet - not - cute and strike up a special relationship in this one - of - a-kind film from director Hal Ashby.
Ray used to be a talented documentary photographer, but at age forty he finds himself in a dead - end job posing as a paparazzo pandering to celebrity - obsessed rich kids.
Obsessed with print - rich environments, they coat walls and surfaces with «a vertiginous array of labels, vocabulary lists, calendars, graphs...» that strike kids as white noise or senseless distraction.