Playing the same role from Greetings, Robert De Niro is Vietnam veteran and aspiring filmmaker Jon Rubin, who has been hired by producer Joe Banner (Allen Garfield) to make an adult film. Rubin uses this to take advantage of his crush on neighbor Joey (Jennifer Salt), wooing her and having sex with her on hidden camera. The problem is that the camera misses most of the action and Banner decides not to hire him.

Rubin follows that by being part of a confrontational theater group led by Gerrit Wood (Gerrit Graham) whose latest play, Be Black Baby! has the audience forced to wear blackface and be abused by the African-American actors who all are wearing white paint on their faces. Rubin’s part is to play a cop who arrests members of the white audience because they are black. Of course, the audience loves the show and decrees it an artistic success. Rubin gets back together with Judy, marrying her and then blowing up their apartment building.

Plenty of actors who would work again with director and writer Brian De Palma appear in this, including Charles Durning, Salt (they’re both in Sisters) and Graham. It also has roles for Paul Bartel and Lara Parker, who was Angelique on Dark Shadows. De Niro and De Palma would, of course, work together again on The Untouchables.

De Palma was still finding his way here and often, he struggles with comedy. There are still some wild moments as the audience is attacked, however.