Trouble in Mind (1985)
Genre: Crime / Drama
Duration: 111 minuten
Alternative title: Wanda's Café
Country:
United States
Directed by: Alan Rudolph
Stars: Kris Kristofferson, Geneviève Bujold and Keith Carradine
IMDb score:
6,3 (2.924)
Releasedate: 11 December 1985
Trouble in Mind plot
"Drugs, sex, crime… Rain City has it all. Here everyone gets what they want — or what they deserve."
Hawk (Kris Kristofferson) has just got out of prison and is looking for some peace and quiet. He hopes to find it in the cafe of Wanda (Geneviève Bujold), an ex-lover. But will he find it...? A young couple crosses their path.
Actors and actresses
Hawk
Coop
Georgia
Wanda
Solo
Hilly Blue
Lieutenant Gunther
Nate Nathanson
Rambo
Leo
Reviews & comments
ZAP!
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"There's always a war somewhere."
The film is set in a slightly dystopian city named Rain City (and Seattle is the best place to film that) and features a number of rather motley characters all over the place. Kristofferson sometimes looks like a skinny Orson Welles with his big hat and coat. Throughout the film, Carradine slowly transforms into a Brian Setzer on acid, and there are a few more normal-looking people, but also plenty of weirdos. For a while, I wondered where it was all going; characters do quite a few illogical things, and Hawk was at times just a nasty guy (the rape of Wanda), even though there is that heavy inner struggle underlying his behavior.
It is all bearable for a while, but then the film shifts into a higher gear, with some bloody violence, a truly absurd and awesome shoot-out, and just the right touches in the final outcome (Hawk is the savior, but leaves anyway and Coop learns a lesson, but joins the army). Not what I expected, but it fits.
The drama in the film doesn't feel very sincere, but it does hold a special place in the overall picture of this tongue-in-cheek little work with a matching kitschy atmosphere (the saxophone is actually okay and in place here). Perhaps best viewed as a sort of (anti)superhero sci-fi flick with a love story, aiming to highlight the transition from the '70s to the '80s.
A respectable seven.
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blurp194
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Marianne Faithfull.
Her songs at the beginning and end of the film are just about the only thing that makes sense. If the film had been nothing more than an hour and a half of test patterns with those songs at the start and end, the result would have been just as meaningful, just as valid, just as beautiful.
But instead of quietly watching a test pattern for an hour, you get a cabinet of curiosities, a film that meanders in every direction and nowhere in the distance gives the feeling of wanting to go anywhere—let alone get there. Played by a Kris Kristofferson who also seems to have no idea where it’s going, Keith Carradine who spent more time with the makeup than on the plot, and Singer who is vying for the special Oscar for the most vacant role ever. Oh, and Genevieve Bujold, who is surprisingly and idiosyncratically fun—the only one in the entire film, actually.
The first film I’ve seen by director Alan Rudolph—of the 25 credits he apparently has, or is it a pseudonym for Alan Smithee? You would almost think so.
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