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Bookmark this pageBlood and Concrete (1991)
Director: Jeffrey Reiner
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From Time Out Film Guide
A black comic cocktail of '50s B film noir and post- modern irony, with a bitter twist. Small-time criminal Joey Turks (Zane) stumbles into a scam involving an addictive aphrodisiac drug, Libido, then hooks up with damaged romantic Mona (Beals). Veteran cop Hank Dick (McGavin), meanwhile, wants to settle a long-standing score with the package's real owner, criminal big-shot Spuntz, whose gay psycho hoodlum Lance (Le Gros) has become Joey's shadow. Jim Thompson might have recognised the survival ethic and scuzzy characters, but this is soft-boiled pastiche rather than hard-boiled parody.Author: NF
Cast & crew
Director: Jeffrey Reiner
Producer: Richard Labrie
Cast: Billy Zane, Jennifer Beals, Darren McGavin, James Le Gros, Nicholas Worth, William Bastiani full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Duration: 99 mins
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