Trouble In Mind
Film Noir
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1h 51m
Directed by Alan Rudolph | 111 mins | 1985
Alan Rudolph’s underseen noir oddity soaks in the grimy ambiance of Rain City, where Hawk (Kris Kristofferson)—a former cop, more recently a convict—is readjusting to the straight world and struggling young father Coop (Keith Carradine) is being drawn into a deeply crooked one. The casting of an out-of-drag Divine as a mob boss indicates something of the film’s singular tone: like an Edward Hopper painting mottled with patches of campy dystopia.
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