Bob Rafelson directs Jack Nicholson, Jessica Lange and John Colicos in the fourth adaptation of the 1934 novel by James M. Cain this time adapted by David Mamet (in his screenwriting debut).

Neo noir? Early erotic thriller? New American Cinema essay on the Film Noir? Unofficial Chinatown cash-in? It ain’t as good as Ossessione but Nicholson and Lange have friction. Their rough sex scenes are like attacks. Their cold interactions in between almost as nihilistic as the source material.

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Perfect Double Bill: Ironweed (1987)

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