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Trouble in Mind
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Rating:  - A permeating feeling of blues, with an eighties look
This movie is a mindset on its own. Watch it as a wonderful videoclip to the unforgettable soundtrack.
Rating:  - Every Seattleite has to own a copy!
If you know Seattle, it is hard to look at this movie objectively -- it's too much fun! Like the Seattle Asian Art Museum converted into Divine's mansion; the shoot-out that shatters Dale Chihuly's reject glass scultures (and caused the local artists to cheer when it was shown in the theaters). Then there's our joke of a monorail built for the Seattle World's Fair (what? You didn't know Seattle had a world's fair?). In the movie it is periodically shown racing through the night, while in reality it's only a few blocks long.
As I recall (it has been decades since I saw it) it is an enjoyable movie, and with such big name stars, I can't understand why it isn't out on DVD. If it was I'd buy one for mysef and several others as presents.
Rating: - A brilliant piece of cinema
Trouble in Mind is a film that needs to have a DVD release, not just to satisfy those who love it, but to prove that there aren't just a few directors in the world who know how to pay homage to the best films of the '40s and '50s. This was one of the best films of the 1980s.
The characters of the film are impressive: Hawk, Wanda, Georgia, Hilly Blue, Coop, and Solo. As equally important as the characters is the atmosphere of Rain City, and the life it has to offer. Alan Rudolph manipulates the characters to interact with the city expertly, as if the city were a living, breathing character all its own. This is direction perfected by Welles in A Touch of Evil, and was so common in many films with Humphrey Bogart.
This is Film101, and needs to be on a DVD. The storyboards need to be published. The screenplay needs to be read. Rudolph's commentary needs to be heard. This film needs to be seen.
Rating: - Where's the DVD????
A unique movie by a great director, a marvelous cast, Devine playing a man in a white suit . . . and no DVD? What the heck is going on here? Some kind of rights thing?
Rating: - once upon a time...in the future
This is a great piece of atmospheric low budget filmmaking. Alan Rudolph successfully uses the avant garde architecture of Seattle and its rain-slicked streets to bring to life the funky Neo-noir metropolis known as Rain City, inhabited by a set of off-beat characters who could have stepped from the pages of a Raymond Chandler novel, my favorite of which is a gangster played by the one and only DIVINE, in his only male-gendered role. It is one of the films unique pleasures to watch him growl at his henchmen and threaten (in his sweet-voiced way) to have Kris Kristofferson's knuckle- bones made into dice and he even gets to say the films best line: "Everyone wants to go to Heaven but no one wants to die!"
This is a film that is just begging for a DVD release. As others have mentioned, the audience for this film is definitely out there
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