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Tough Guys Don't Dance | |
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Directed by | Norman Mailer |
Screenplay by | Norman Mailer Robert Towne (Rewrites) |
Based on | Tough Guys Don't Dance by Norman Mailer |
Produced by | Menahem Golan Yoram Globus |
Starring | Ryan O'Neal Isabella Rossellini Debra Sandlund Wings Hauser |
Cinematography | Mike Moyer John Bailey (Uncredited) |
Edited by | Debra McDermott |
Music by | Angelo Badalamenti |
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Distributed by | The Cannon Group |
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Running time | 109 minutes[1] |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $5[2]–10 million[3] |
Box office | $343,300[3] |
Tough Guys Don't Dance is a 1987 crime mystery comedy-drama film written and directed by Norman Mailer based on his novel of the same name. It is a murder mystery/film noir piece. It was screened out of competition at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival.[4]
The film received a mixed reaction from critics and was a box office bomb. It was also nominated for four 1988 Independent Spirit Awards.[5]