Directed by Alan Rudolph • 1978 • United States
Starring Geraldine Chaplin, Anthony Perkins, Moses Gunn
Geraldine Chaplin delivers a chillingly effective performance as an unstable woman just out of prison and hell-bent on getting even with the husband (Anthony Perkins) who abandoned her years ago. Produced by Robert Altman, this spellbinding homage to the female-driven noir melodramas of the 1940s à la MILDRED PIERCE amps up their frayed-nerve energy and seething sense of unrest.
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Afterglow
Directed by Alan Rudolph • 1997 • United States
Starring Nick Nolte, Julie Christie, Lara Flynn BoyleNick 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 ...
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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...
