An escaped con, on the run from the law, moves into a married couple's house and takes over their lives.
Acting
Rourke's unpredictable menace vs Hopkins's simmering restraint.
Direction
Cimino's obsessive compositions in a cramped suburban house.
Director
Michael Cimino
Mickey Rourke
Michael Bosworth
Anthony Hopkins
Tim Cornell
Mimi Rogers
Nora Cornell
Lindsay Crouse
Brenda Chandler
Kelly Lynch
Nancy Breyers
Elias Koteas
Wally Bosworth
David Morse
Albert
Shawnee Smith
May Cornell
Gerry Bamman
Ed Tallent
Matt McGrath
Kyle
John Christopher Jones
Neff
Dean Norris
Maddox
John Finn
Lexington
Christopher Curry
Chabon
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Cimino's career never recovered from Heaven's Gate, and this was his second-to-last theatrical film. He reportedly fought the studio over the ending.
This bombed against Home Alone, becoming a symbol of old Hollywood masculinity losing to family-friendly dominance. The 1955 original starred Bogart and Fredric March.
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