One of my all-time favorites that usually gets a very low rating from the critics is a film based on Ernest Hemingway's Nick Adams stories----ADVENTURES OF A YOUNG MAN.

Paul Newman as the punch-drunk fighter, the battler in one segment / tale, is just great. Dan Daley as an alcoholic carnival advance man is too. Michael J. Pollard as Nick's chum is just wacky enough. Fine fall "Up-In-Michigan" photography and the relationship between the boy and his overbearing too narrow parents really hit home for me. I'd give it 3 and a half stars out of 4 at least. But as I said, no critique I've ever read gave it more then 2 stars----usually only 1.

Art Thieme