Mala Noche (1985)

Director:

Gus Van Sant

Writers:

Walt Curtis (story)
Gus Van Sant (writer)

Release Date:

19 June 1987 (West Germany)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

A story of amour fou. Walt is madly in love/lust with a young illegal Mexican immigrant. "I wanna show this Mexican kid that I'm gay for him"...

Plot Keywords:

Mexican | Gay | Immigrant | Reckless Driving | Mcdonalds

Awards:

2 wins

Cast

Tim Streeter	...	Walt Curtis
Doug Cooeyate	...	Johnny
Ray Monge	...	Roberto Pepper
Nyla McCarthy	...	Betty
Sam Downey	...	Hotel Clerk
Robert Lee Pitchlynn	...	Drunk Man (as Bob Pitchlynn)
Eric Pedersen	...	Policeman
Marty Christiansen	...	Barfriend
George Conner	...	Wino (as Bad George Connor)
Don Chambers	...	Himself
Walt Curtis	...	George
Kenny Presler	...	Street Hustler
Conde Benavides	...	Arcade Amigo
Cristo Stoyos	...	Greek Singer
Matt Cooeyate	...	Boxcar Amigo

Also Known As:

Bad Night

Runtime:

78 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English | Spanish

Color:

Color | Black and White

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Portugal:M/16 | Sweden:7 | South Korea:15 | Australia:M

Filming Locations:

Portland, Oregon, USA

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "At the Movies: Summer Special 2008/09" (2008)

Soundtrack:

Balderama

It's Gus Van Sant's first and it's a worth watching little feature film…

Some time ago, like two years ago to be more or less exact, I was into the films of director Gus Van Sant. I got to see a few of his, not counting his latest film Milk that was released just last year, 12 feature films. I got to see Drugstore Cowboy, Finding Forrester, Elephant (my favourite of him so far), Last Days and Paranoid Park. As I often remark in my IMDb comments, I'm one of the fans of the truly amazing Criterion Collection and two Van Sant films are part of the collection, two of his first ones: Mala Noche (his very first one, released in 1985) and My Own Private Idaho (released back in 1991, two years after the release of Drugstore Cowboy). It was about time to finally check out the Criterion Van Sant titles and while not on the Criterion DVD today I saw Mala Noche (and I will renting as soon as I can the Criterion DVD of My Own Private Idaho, which is one of the most acclaimed films of Van Sant. And by the way, if you go to the website of Criterion you will find the lists of favourite Criterion titles of people like Richard Linklater, John Lurie,. "Idaho"is part of the list of Steve Buscemi, James Franco, so is more acclaim, more for me to finally check out that 1991 film).