Directed by Alan Rudolph • 1997 • United States
Starring Nick Nolte, Julie Christie, Lara Flynn Boyle
Nick Nolte and a luminous, Academy Award–nominated Julie Christie deliver superb performances in this multilayered, offbeat comic look at what keeps a marriage going after the initial spark has died. He’s a philandering handyman suggestively named Lucky Mann, while she’s his wife, Phyllis Hart, a former B-movie actress who tacitly tolerates the casual affairs he has with his clients—as long as he doesn’t get emotionally involved. When Lucky gets intimately entangled with a sexually frustrated yuppie housewife (Lara Flynn Boyle), it throws their understanding off-balance—and leads Phyllis to pursue her own romantic adventure.
Up Next in Alan Rudolph’s Dramas of Desire
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Trouble in Mind
Directed by Alan Rudolph • 1985 • United States
Starring Kris Kristofferson, Keith Carradine, Lori SingerIn a down-and-out corner of Rain City—a mysterious, moody metropolis that seems to exist partly in the future, partly in the past—a collection of social cast-offs are drawn together by fate,...
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Breakfast of Champions
Directed by Alan Rudolph • 1999 • United States
Starring Bruce Willis, Albert Finney, Nick NolteA totally unhinged vision of all-American madness, Alan Rudolph’s outré adaptation of the novel by Kurt Vonnegut plays something like a crazed, live-action cartoon as it follows the exploits of Dwayn...
