Tough Guys Don't Dance
Tough Guys Don't Dance ★★½ 1987 (R)
Mailer directed this selfsatiric mystery thriller from his own novel. A writer may have committed murder—but he can't remember. So he searches for the truth among various friends, enemies, lovers, and cohorts. 110m/C VHS, DVD . Ryan O'Neal, Isabella Rossellini, Wings Hauser, Debra Sandlund, John Bedford Lloyd, Lawrence Tierney, Clarence Williams III, Penn Jillette, Frances Fisher; D: Norman Mailer; W: Norman Mailer; C: John Bailey; M: Angelo Badalamenti. Golden Raspberries ‘87: Worst Director (Mailer).
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