If not for Eastwood in the movie, it would have achieved B movie status before it was released. Poor dialogue delivered even more poorly. SO many contrived scenes (we need a car...well here in Mexico we just take one and leave it somewhere else for others to use) A hot Latina seducing a 91 year old man who has more on his mind than a little nookie. A "wild" kid who takes about 30 seconds to convince to leave this town. And on and on and on. Maybe the book was good, but the movie would have been better...off not being made.