Tough Guys Don't Dance is a 1987 film from Cannon Films written and directed by Norman Mailer based on his novel of the same name. It is a murder mystery/film noir piece that was scorned both by audiences and critics alike. It was screened out of competition at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival.
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 ...
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Tough Guys Don't Dance is a 1987 film from Cannon Films written and directed by Norman Mailer based on his novel of the same name. It is a murder mystery/film noir piece that was scorned both by audiences and critics alike. It was screened out of competition at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival.
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, Capt. Alvin 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 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.
The critical reception was less than stellar. Hal Hinson of the Washington Post said that the film was "hard to classify; at times you laugh raucously at what's up on the...
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