Carny (1980)

Storyline

A carnival comes to a small town. Eighteen year old Donna meets Frankie and Patch, two carnival hustlers. They earn their living by mercilessly taunting spectators to try to dump one of them into the water by throwing balls. Donna is tired of her work as a waitress and follows them through the South. Carny, the 1980 Robert Kaylor romantic carnival melodrama (“Where love is just another sucker’s game”; “When you’re young and going nowhere… The Carny looks like a good way out.”; “Screenplay by Thomas Baum”; “Story by Phoebe Kaylor, Robert Kaylor, Robbie Robertson”) starring Gary Busey, Jodie Foster, Robbie Robertson (lead singer of the rock ‘n’ roll music group, “The Band”), Meg Foster, Kenneth McMillan, Elisha Cook Jr., and Tim Thomerson