Johnny Handsome

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Johnny Handsome is an 1989 American crime-drama film directed by Walter Hill and starring Mickey Rourke, Ellen Barkin and Morgan Freeman. The film was written by Ken Friedman, from the novel by John Godey. A career criminal who has been deformed since birth is given a new face by a kind doctor and paroled from prison. It appears that he has gone straight, but he is really planning his revenge on the man who killed his father-figure and sent him t... more
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  • 1989

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Runtime:

  • 94 min (56 hs )

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Walter Hill

Walter Wesley Hill (born January 10, 1942 in Long Beach, California) is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. Hill is known for male-dominated action films and revival of the Western. He said in an interview, "Every film I've done has been a Western," and elaborated in another, ...

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  • They changed his looks, his life and his future... but they couldn't change his past.

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