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Director: Alan Rudolph
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From Time Out Film Guide
After a dip into the mainstream with Mortal Thoughts, the wildest card in American cinema is back on his own bizarre terrain. This modern urban fairytale is a beautifully ambivalent re-telling of The Prince and the Pauper. Modine is the separated-at-birth twins (both of them), one a hood whose dream life - moppet children, a cooing fashion-plate wife (Singer) - is coupled with violent megalomania, the other a cringing wimp who can't bring himself to date his best friend's anguished, poetry-reading sister (Boyle). The whole is held together with a plot about an aspiring writer (Ferrell) on the track of her first real-life drama, and by an atmospheric soundtrack (Terje Rydal, Ali Farka Toure) that accompanies the characters' hypnotically crazed manoeuvres. M Emmet Walsh steals the show as a garage boss in a drolly choreographed homage to Jacques Demy. Delirious stuff.Author: JRo
Cast & crew
Director: Alan Rudolph
Producer: David Blocker
Cast: Matthew Modine, Lara Flynn Boyle, Tyra Ferrell, M Emmet Walsh, Fred Ward, Marisa Tomei, Lori Singer full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Duration: 115 mins
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