Trouble in Mind (1985)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. Director:Alan RudolphWriter:Alan Rudolph |
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Trouble in Mind (1985)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. Director:Alan RudolphWriter:Alan Rudolph |
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| Keith Carradine | ... |
Coop
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| Lori Singer | ... |
Georgia
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| Geneviève Bujold | ... | ||
| Joe Morton | ... |
Solo
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George Kirby | ... |
Lieutenant Gunther
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| John Considine | ... |
Nate Nathanson
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| Dirk Blocker | ... |
Rambo
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| Albert Hall | ... |
Leo
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| Gailard Sartain | ... |
Fat Adolph
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Robert Gould | ... |
Mardy Stoog
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Antonia Dauphin | ... |
Sonja Nathanson
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Billy Silva | ... |
Elmo
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Caitlin Ferguson | ... |
Spike
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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.
It's hard to decipher the motivation behind this attractive but often labored retro-noir potboiler, which in appearance (and appearances are all the film has to offer) falls uncomfortably somewhere in between an homage to and a satire of classic 1940s crime dramas. The characters are all familiar from other Alan Rudolph daydreams: the laconic lone-wolf hero (Kris Kristofferson, as a low-life ex cop); the tough-but-sensible cookie with a kind streak (coffee waitress Geneviève Bujold); and Rudolph regular Keith Carradine as the innocent bystander, chasing success into the gutters of Rain City (a.k.a. Seattle). But the dialogue, mood, and the story itself are self-consciously artificial, owing more to mid 1980s music-video hyperbole than to any Golden Age Hollywood film style, and the plot doesn't so much develop as congeal. Highlights include Carradine's scene-by-scene metamorphosis into something resembling Ziggy Stardust, and a brief but startling moment when a villain is drowned in a parked car filled with water.