Tough Guys Don't Dance (1987)

09/18/1987 (US) • 1h 49m

Comedy, Crime, Drama

A love story haunted by murder.

Overview

Tim Madden awakens one morning to discover a fresh tattoo on his arm, his car covered in blood, his girlfriend in bed with the town sheriff, and a woman's severed head in his weed stash. Sensing a setup and in desperate need to clear his name, he begins an investigation that soon begins to expose a web of corruption in the small coastal community of Provincetown.

Top Billed Cast

Ryan O'Neal

Tim Madden

Isabella Rossellini

Madeleine Regency

Debra Stipe

Patty Lareine

Wings Hauser

Capt. Alvin Luther Regency

John Bedford Lloyd

Wardley Meeks III

Lawrence Tierney

Dougy Madden

Penn Jillette

Big Stoop

Frances Fisher

Jessica Pond


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Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

$5,000,000.00

Revenue

$858,250.00

Keywords

vietnam veteran

amnesia

based on novel or book

alcohol

cocaine

massachusetts

police chief

wealth

murder

cancer

cape cod

ex-con

seaside town

provincetown massachusetts

neo-noir

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