Tough Guys Don't Dance R

A love story shadowed by murder. A comedy laced with horror.
Tough Guys Don't Dance
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DVD Details

  • Rated: R
  • Closed captioning available
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 50 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: September 16, 2003
  • Originally Released: 1987
  • Label: MGM (Video & DVD)

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Entertainment Reviews:

Rotten40%

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Total Count: 20

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 677
The kind of lousy cinema that breathes and captures the imagination more than a conventionally good movie can. Full Review
Spectrum Culture
Aug 30, 2018
Rating: C- -- Embarrassingly idiotic high camp modern noir set on Cape Cod. Full Review
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Oct 11, 2009
...Clayburgh gives one of her best performances...Plimpton nearly steals the show with her mixture of girlish brashness and suggestive sexuality...
Variety
May 20, 1987
Norman Mailer's best film, adapted from his worst novel, shows a surprising amount of cinematic savvy and style. Full Review
Chicago Reader
Jan 1, 2000
Rating: 2.5/4 -- What is strange is that Tough Guys Don't Dance leaves me with such vivid memories of its times and places, its feelings and weathers, and yet leaves me so completely indifferent to its plot. Watching the film, I laughed a good deal. Full Review
Chicago Sun-Times
Jan 1, 2000
...Often brilliant…....[The film] has darkly gorgeous visuals....Mailer and the actors get an edgy feel into nearly every scene...
Los Angeles Times
Sep 17, 1987
Rating: 3/5 -- Not the high point of the Mailer career, but it's a small, entertaining part of it.
New York Times
May 20, 2003

Product Description:

Based on Norman Mailer's novel, this film is centered on the desperate attempts of a down-and-out writer to discover the strange truth behind a series of grisly, inexplicable mutilation murders.

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Product Info

  • Sales Rank: 122,023
  • UPC: 027616895387
  • Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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