"A low-budget fiction feature shot in Minneapolis in 1974 (Loose Ends deals with) the relationship between two working-class men and their desire to escape from their depressing lives....As a first feature, the film is an impressive achievement....Eddie and Billy work together in a garage. Eddy is married with a four-year-old son, and his wife is pregnant. Billy is divorced and unhappy with his life. What follows amounts to a courtship between the two men (who set) off on a trip to Denver to start a new life....One of the film's strengths is that the sexual undercurrent in the men's relationship is both obvious and muted." (Jump Cut, 1976) "More lucidly than most of the Easy Rider cycle, Loose Ends makes the essential connections between the male relationship, the desire for flight, and the increasingly manifest strains in Western society....Distinctly anti-romantic, it invites comparison with the English essays on working-class life made in the sixties" (Robin Wood).