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Tough Guys Don't Dance (1987)Writer, ex-con and 40-something bottle-baby Tim Madden, who is prone to black-outs, awakens from a two-week bender to discover a pool of blood in his car... See full summary » Director:Norman Mailer |
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| Ryan O'Neal | ... |
Tim Madden
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Madeleine Regency
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Debra Sandlund | ... |
Patty Lareine
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| Wings Hauser | ... |
Capt. Alvin Luther Regency
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John Bedford Lloyd | ... |
Wardley Meeks III
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| Lawrence Tierney | ... |
Dougy Madden
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| Penn Jillette | ... |
Big Stoop
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| Frances Fisher | ... |
Jessica Pond
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R. Patrick Sullivan | ... |
Lonnie Pangborn
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Spider
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Stoodie
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| Clarence Williams III | ... |
Bolo
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Kathryn Sanders | ... |
Beth
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Ira Lewis | ... |
Merwyn Finney
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Writer, ex-con and 40-something bottle-baby Tim Madden, who is prone to black-outs, awakens from a two-week bender to discover a pool of blood in his car, a blond woman's severed head in his marijuana stash, and the new Provincetown police chief, Captain Luther Regency, shacked up with his former girlfriend Madeleine. As his father Dougy helps him try to unravel the mystery, he is dogged by the psychotic Capt. Regency, who has it in for Tim as a car-crash that he was involved in with Madeline has left her unable to have children. Flashing-back to the past, Tim remembers the time when he encouraged Madeline to swing with a Li'l Abnerish couple from down South, the fundamentalist preacher Big Stoop and his Daisy Mae-ish wife, Patty Lareine, whose ad Tim had come across in 'Screw' magazine. It's on the trip back that the car crash occurs, since Madeline is incensed that Tim has so enjoyed Patty Lareine's charms... Written by Jon C. Hopwood
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(USA) See more »Also Known As:
A Marca do Passado See more »Filming Locations:
Provincetown, Massachusetts, USABox Office
Budget:
$5,000,000 (estimated)Gross:
$858,250 (USA)Company Credits
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Dougy Madden: Six months ago, they told me to stop or I was dead. I stopped. Now the spirits circle around my bed and they tell me to dance. I tell 'em, "Tough guys don't dance." They answer me, "Keep dancing."
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Music by Angelo Badalamenti
Lyrics by Norman Mailer and Angelo Badalamenti
Sung by Mel Tillis See more »
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Norman Mailer, in the director's commentary on the DVD, said that he was counseled to cut the ending of the scene in which Ryan O'Neal's character Tim Madden reads a note from his ex-girlfriend Madeline informing him that his wife was having an affair with her husband, and he exclaims, "Oh God! Oh Man! Oh God! Oh Man!" because of O'Neal's poor performance. Mailer kept it in because he thought the poor line reading actually added something to the picture. O'Neal, who had been friendly with Mailer, turned on him, as the bit revealed his shortcomings as an actor and embarrassed him. See more »Quotes
Tim Madden: Should you drink?Dougy Madden: Six months ago, they told me to stop or I was dead. I stopped. Now the spirits circle around my bed and they tell me to dance. I tell 'em, "Tough guys don't dance." They answer me, "Keep dancing."
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"You'll Come Back (You Always Do)"Music by Angelo Badalamenti
Lyrics by Norman Mailer and Angelo Badalamenti
Sung by Mel Tillis See more »
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