WUSA (film)

WUSA is a 1970 American movie directed by Stuart Rosenberg and written by Robert Stone, based on his 1967 book A Hall of Mirrors. It is a retrospective movie about society as reflected in the beginning of the 1970s in the deep south of the USA. Paul Newman plays a down and out  'communicator' who has landed in New Orleans, in search of an old friend, who just happens to owe him $100. The friend just happens to run a soup kitchen, and does not have $100 that he owes the lead character. Our hero happens to be a disc jockey and seeks one of the radio stations in town, at the recommendation of his friend. That stations' call letters are "WUSA".

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Category:1970 American drama movies
Category:1970s English-language movies
Category:Movies about radio people
Category:Movies based on books
Category:Movies set in New Orleans
Category:Political movies
Category:Paramount Pictures movies