1983’s Star 80 features one of Eric Roberts’s best and most disturbing performances.  On the one hand, it’s the film that proved Roberts’s talent.  On the other hand, it’s a film in which he does such a good job bringing the repellent Paul Snider to life that he reportedly struggled to convince casting agents that he could characters who weren’t shady and/or mentally unstable.

In this scene, Roberts-as-Snider gets his look down.  Snider, a man who has no real identity beyond his desire to be somebody, tries to disguise his emptiness through the right haircut and the right clothes.