Directed by:
Howard BrooknerCinematography:
Elliot DavisComposer:
Jonathan ShefferCast:
Josef Sommer, Madonna, Jennifer Grey, Tony Longo, Rutger Hauer, Matt Dillon, Stephen McHattie, Anita Morris, Ethan Phillips, Alan Ruck, Randy Quaid (more)VOD (1)
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It was New Year's Eve in New York City, 1928. The champagne was cold, the dolls were red-hot and everyone who was anyone was there. Shimmy on down to the speakeasy run by jazz-baby Miss Missou (Anita Morris), where earnest Lovey Lou (Jennifer Grey) and dishy Hortense Hathaway (Madonna) sing and dance on the hearts of two-timin' pony player Regret (Matt Dillon) and hapless Feet Samuels (Randy Quaid), a lumbering oaf with a heart of gold who's sold it, along with the rest of his body, to a mad doctor determined to collect at midnight. And make an appearance at the home of feather-headed socialite Harriet MacKyle (Julie Hagerty), whose glittering New Year's bash really takes flight with an untimely aviary assassination perpetuated by suave bootlegger Handsome Jack (Esai Morales). Add a handful of reluctant gangsters, an assortment of unflappable flappers and a philandering gambler known as "The Brain" (Rutger Hauer) and you've got a comic celebration of the infamous night when the underworld met the upper crust-and the laughs were strictly on the house! (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Josef Sommer
German Empire
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Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Dirty Harry (1971)
Sophie's Choice (1982) - narrator
Madonna
USA
Best movies:
The Work of Director Chris Cunningham (2003) (video compilation)
Live 8 (2005) (concert)
Madonna: The Video Collection 93:99 (1999) (video compilation)
Jennifer Grey
USA
Best movies:
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen (2012) - a.f.
Dirty Dancing (1987)
Light Years (1988)
Tony Longo
USA
Best movies:
The Last Boy Scout (1991)
Mulholland Drive (2001)
Sixteen Candles (1984)
Rutger Hauer
Netherlands
Best movies:
Batman Begins (2005)
Knockin' on Heaven's Door (1997)
The Legend of the Holy Drinker (1988)
Matt Dillon
USA
Best movies:
Crash (2004)
Madonna: The Video Collection 93:99 (1999) (video compilation)
Frankie Starlight (1995)
Stephen McHattie
Canada
Best movies:
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Maurice Richard (2005)
Guns (2008) (TV movie)
Anita Morris
USA
Best movies:
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Ethan Phillips
USA
Best movies:
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Have Dreams, Will Travel (2007)
Glory (1989)
Randy Quaid
USA
Best movies:
Paper Moon (1973)
Midnight Express (1978)
The Last Picture Show (1971)
Julie Hagerty
USA
Best movies:
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U Turn (1997)
Airplane! (1980)
Esai Morales
USA
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La Bamba (1987)
Bad Boys (1983)
Fisher Stevens
USA
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Is It College Yet? (2002) (TV movie)
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
Richard Edson
USA
Best movies:
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Do the Right Thing (1989)
Good Morning, Vietnam (1987)
Howard Brookner
USA
Best movies:
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John Rothman
USA
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United 93 (2006)
Ghostbusters (1984)
Mark Nelson
Best movies:
The Chosen (1981)
The First Wives Club (1996)
Friday the 13th (1980)
Googy Gress
USA
Best movies:
Apollo 13 (1995)
Frost/Nixon (2008)
Armageddon (1998)
William S. Burroughs
USA
Best movies:
Ministry: Tapes of Wrath (2000) (video compilation)
Chappaqua (1966)
Drugstore Cowboy (1989)