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Tough Guys Don't Dance

Country: USA, Language: English, 110 mins

  • Director: Norman Mailer
  • Writer: Norman Mailer
  • Producer: Francis Ford Coppola; Yoram Globus

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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 Abnerish couple from down South, the fundamentalist preacher Big Stoop and his Daisy Mae-ish wife, Patty Lareine, whose ad Tim had come across in 'Screw' magazine. It's on the trip back that the car crash occurs, since Madeline is incensed that Tim has so enjoyed Patty Lareine's charms. Except for his father Dougy, who is dying of cancer, Tim suspects everyone!


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Cast & Characters

Ryan O'Neal as Tim Madden;
Isabella Rossellini as Madeleine Regency;
Debra Sandlund as Patty Lareine;
Wings Hauser as Capt. Alvin Luther Regency;
John Bedford Lloyd as Wardley Meeks III;
Lawrence Tierney as Dougy Madden;
Penn Jillette as Big Stoop;
Frances Fisher as Jessica Pond;
R. Patrick Sullivan as Lonnie Pangborn;
John Snyder as Spider;
Stephan Morrow as Stoodie;
Clarence Williams III as Bolo;
Kathryn Sanders as Beth;
Ira Lewis as Merwyn Finney;
Ed Setrakian as Lawyer