Tough Guys Don't Dance (1987)

Directors

Norman Mailer

Cast

Clarence Williams III, Debra Sandlund, Ed Setrakian, Frances Fisher, Isabella Rossellini, John Bedford Lloyd, Lawrence Tierney, Penn & Teller, Ryan O'Neal, Wings Hauser

The story

A month after his party-obsessed wife Patty Lareine left him, Tim Madden is visited by his father Dougy, who tells Tim that he has stopped chemotherapy because "tough guys don't dance". Tim reveals to Dougy that there are parts of two murdered bodies in his cellar, and that while he doesn't think that he murdered them, he has been suffering from blackouts and hallucinations. Tim recalls to Dougy how he had awoken five days earlier, after spending the night doing cocaine and having sex with pornographic film actress Jessica Pond in front of her partner Lonnie Pangborn, to discover bloody clothing in his car and a new tattoo on his arm…

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