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Johnny Handsome
A career criminal who has been deformed since birth is given a new face by a kindly doctor and paroled from prison. It appears that he has gone straight, but he is really planning his revenge on the man who killed his mentor and sent him to prison.
1989 · Directed by Walter Hill · 94 min · Crime · Drama · 10 frames
Tagline
They changed his looks, his life and his future... but they couldn't change his past .
Crew
- Screenplay: Ken Friedman
- Cinematography: Matthew F. Leonetti
- Edited by: Donn Aron, Carmel Davies, Freeman A. Davies
- Music: Ry Cooder
- Production design: Gene Rudolf
- Produced by: Charles Roven
Cast
- Mickey Rourke as Johnny Handsome
- Ellen Barkin as Sunny Boyd
- Morgan Freeman as Lt. A.Z. Drones
- Forest Whitaker as Dr. Steven Fisher
- Elizabeth McGovern as Donna McCarty
- Lance Henriksen as Rafe Garrett
- Scott Wilson as Mikey Chalmette
- David Schramm as Vic Dumask
- Peter Jason as Mr. Bonet
- Yvonne Bryceland as Sister Luke
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: The Guber-Peters Company, Roven Productions, Carolco Pictures
- Budget: $20,000,000
- Box office: $7,237,794
- Themes: prison, mask, individual, operation, robbery, restart, ex-detainee, new orleans, louisiana, new identity, ugliness
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