Directed by Alan Rudolph • 1985 • United States
Starring Kris Kristofferson, Keith Carradine, Lori Singer
In 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, among them just-out-of-prison former cop Hawk (Kris Kristofferson), his old flame (Geneviève Bujold), and a defenseless young woman (Lori Singer) whom Hawk attempts to rescue from her gangster husband (Keith Carradine). Alan Rudolph brings a fog-shrouded romanticism to this dreamlike reworking of classic noir, which also features a rare non-drag appearance by John Waters muse Divine as the world-weary crime boss Hilly Blue.
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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...
