Tough Guys Don’t Dance
1986, R, 110 min.
Directed by Norman Mailer, Starring Ryan O’Neal, Isabella Rossellini, Debra Sandlund, Wings Hauser, John Bedford Lloyd, Lawrence Tierney, Penn Jillette, Frances Fisher.
Mailer’s only studio effort is a murder mystery about a boxer who wakes up from a bender alongside a blonde’s severed head.
This article appears in November 3 • 2006.
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