Tough Guys Don't Dance (1987)

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4.9	IMDB rating

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Directed by

Norman Mailer

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Ryan O'Neal
Tim Madden

Isabella Rossellini
Madeleine Regency

Debra Stipe
Patty Lareine

Wings Hauser
Capt. Alvin Luther Regency

John Bedford Lloyd
Wardley Meeks III

Lawrence Tierney
Dougy Madden

Penn Jillette
Big Stoop

Frances Fisher
Jessica Pond

Written by

Norman Mailer
(screenplay by)

Robert Towne
uncredited

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Description: 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 A ... (more)

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Pop Culture Phenomenon Films: 80’s (1473 movies items)

" 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. Tough Guys Don't Dance is a 1987 crime mystery comedy-drama film written and directed by Norman Mailer based on his novel of the same name. It is a murder mystery/film noir piece. It was screened out of competition at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival. The film received negative reviews from critics and was a box office bomb. It was also n"