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Trouble in Mind (1985)
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Alan Rudolph (written by)
Release Date:
March 1986 (USA)
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Plot:
The lives of an ex-con, a coffee-shop owner, and a young couple looking to make it rich intersect in the fictional and hypnotic Rain City. | full synopsis
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2 wins
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2 nominations
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Bladerunner?
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Kris Kristofferson | ... | Hawk | |
| Keith Carradine | ... | Coop | |
| Lori Singer | ... | Georgia | |
| Geneviève Bujold | ... | Wanda | |
| Joe Morton | ... | Solo | |
| Divine | ... | Hilly Blue | |
| George Kirby | ... | Lieutenant Gunther | |
| John Considine | ... | Nate Nathanson | |
| Dirk Blocker | ... | Rambo | |
| Albert Hall | ... | Leo | |
| Gailard Sartain | ... | Fat Adolph | |
| Robert Gould | ... | Mardy Stoog | |
| Antonia Dauphin | ... | Sonja Nathanson | |
| Billy Silva | ... | Elmo | |
| Caitlin Ferguson | ... | Spike |
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111 min
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Hilly Blue:
I prefer priests. They're *real* hypocrites.
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The person who compared this film to Bladerunner is not only doing this film a disservice, but is so far from the mark as to be untrue. The chief protagonist is a cop true, and though initially spurned, he does get the girl in the end, but that's about where it ends...
From the opening strains of the muted trumpet, and Marianne Faithfull's beautifuly broken voice, this film is a masterpiece, it's moody, quirky, low key and not without a little menace, especially when Hilly Blue "puts the anchor" on Solo, "they should all blow each other's balls off, make my life easier..." to quote Lt. Gunther.
It's everything that Bladerunner isn't, if anything it's set in some alternate vision of a disfunctional 50's & 80's combined, down at heel low life's, trashy outfits, too much drab neon & hairspray, allied with a little mob glamour and modern art.
I guess I just feel for the characters, Hawk's hunger for a life he never had, the Zen stillness of Wanda, the wild eyed innocence of Georgia and the weirdness that is Coop, Solo freaking out as a Bhudhist, and last but not least, Divine in a suit... "let everybody get what they deserve..."
It's not a fast movie, or an ensemble piece, but at some deep level it resonates.
"what are you looking at?" "you a cop?" "you know damn well I'm not a cop" "that's what I'm looking at then, a woman who isn't a cop..."
It's the film I watch when I get down, I've lost track of the number of times I've watched it, I caught it first at the ICA West Bank in London, on it's last showing before they started a series of Mexican masked wrestling bario movies :) I bought it recently on DVD in a shop in Schipol airport after being delayed in Amsterdam for two hours, I'd been looking for it for years at that point... Even Amazon had it on back order.
It's really a wonderful movie, from icy lake to mountain road, I always come away from it happy, I guess you can ask no more from a movie than that.