Bob Rafelson has stated that this is the final part of an informal trilogy he
started with "Five Easy Pieces" and continued with "The King Of Marvin
Gardens". In the three, Nicholson has now played son, brother and father. In
this one, Nicholson is a wealthy wine dealer who has distanced himself
from
his wife with his philandering and from his son with his negligence. After he
steals a diamond necklace with the help of a safecracker partner, Victor,
things start coming apart. His wife sets out to interrupt what she thinks is
another one of his weekend dalliances, but is really his trip to pawn the
jewels.