In addition to Road Movie and Who'll Stop the Rain, Judith Rascoe's screenplays include A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Endless Love (yet to be released). Ms. Rascoe is also a novelist and short-story writer.
In adapting Robert Stone's best-selling novel, “Dog Soldiers,” for the screen, Rascoe and Stone draw largely on the novel's adventurous elements, while keeping intact its thesis that the war in Vietnam both caused and was caused by a deteriorated American society. Karel Reisz directed this “hallucinogenic nightmare involving three unlikely losers in an ill-fated attempt to smuggle two kilos of pure smack out of Vietnam. There's Converse, a quivering, ineffectual journalist who has run out of moral objections to the war and decides, in a moment of desperation, to take advantage of it, like everyone else; Hicks, a self-styled zen military man who reads Nietzsche and runs dope, usually grass; and Converse's wife, Marge, who has been left alone in Berkeley with their young daughter while her husband searches for ‘inspiration' in Vietnam.... a violent, visceral film....” --Leigh Charlton, The Village Voice