The Cannon Group
Adapted by Altman and Sam Shepard for The Cannon Group from the latter's Pulitzer Prize-nominated play, "Fool for Love" (1985) featured the playwright-actor alongside Kim Basinger, Harry Dean Stanton, and Randy Quaid; it fared better than most of his films from the era, earning $900,000 domestically on a $2 million budget and positive reviews from Roger Ebert and Vincent Canby. Still, widespread popularity with audiences continued to elude him.