Tough Guys Don't Dance
Tough Guys Don't Dance is a 1987 film about a writer and ex-con who is prone to blackouts, who awakens from a two-week bender to discover a pool of blood in his car.
- Written and directed by Norman Mailer.
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Tim Madden
[edit]- Your knife... is in... my dog.
Madeleine Regency
[edit]- Mr. Regency and I make out five times a night. That's why I call him Mr. Five!
Wardley Meeks III
[edit]- Madden, take it in the mouth or you'll die. Will you take my pride and joy into your mouth?
- I am all wrong for this kind of imbroglio!
Dialogue
[edit]- Madeleine Regency: [narrating a letter] My husband is having an affair with your wife. I don't think we should talk about it... unless you're prepared to kill them.
- Tim Madden: Oh man! Oh God, oh man! Oh God, oh man! Oh God, oh man! Oh God, oh man, oh God!
- Tim Madden: How could you dig Big Stoop?
- Madeleine Regency: Because I'm crazy! This country's crazy!
- [Madeleine begins slapping Tim around]
- [Mr. Regency has just suffered a stroke. Madeleine is at his bedside]
- Capt. Alvin Luther Regency: I made you come 16 times... in a night.
- Madeleine Regency: Not one of them was good.
- Capt. Alvin Luther Regency: That's because... ya got no WOOOOOMB!
- Tim Madden: Should you drink?
- Dougy Madden: Six months ago, they told me to stop or I was dead. I stopped. Now the spirits circle around my bed and they tell me to dance. I tell 'em, "Tough guys don't dance." They answer me, "Keep dancing."
Taglines
[edit]- A story of how dangerous love can be.
- A love story shadowed by murder. A comedy laced with horror.
Cast
[edit]- Ryan O'Neal - Tim Madden
- Isabella Rossellini - Madeleine Regency
- Lawrence Tierney - Dougy Madden
- Wings Hauser - Luther Regency
- Debra Sandlund - Patty Lareine
- Penn Jillette - Big Stoop
- John Bedford Lloyd - Wardley Meeks III
- Frances Fisher - Jessica Pond
