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starring: Debra Winger, Mark Keyloun, Darrell Larson, Brooke Alderson, Paul Winfielddirected by: James Bridges
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786300271579
Format: Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
ISBN: 6300271579
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Release Date: March 28, 1995
Running Time: 109 minutes
Sales Rank: 18346
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: March 09, 1984
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Description:
A bank teller falls for a drug dealer. When he is murdered, she teams up with his partner to find the killer.
Amazon.com:
This film isn't really about Mike (Mark Keyloun), whose fate is revealed by the title, but about Betty (Debra Winger, An Officer and a Gentleman). Mike is the bank teller's blow-dried tennis instructor. They have a bit of a thing for each other. All she knows is that he's cute and that he's a low-level dealer. What she doesn't know is that he's in way over his head. When Mike is murdered, Betty tries to put the pieces together at the same time his drug-addled partner, Pete (Darrell Larson), tries to avoid the same fate. Powerful record producer Phillip (Paul Winfield) helps to fill in the blanks of Mike's mysterious past, but easy answers won't be forthcoming. Revised several times and shelved by the studio until Terms of Endearment re-established Winger's star status, Mike's Murder had a difficult gestation. Despite praise from a few critics, there were others who panned the deliberately paced thriller (some found it confusing, some found it dull), and it was a commercial disappointment. In the decades to come, however, its critical fortunes would slowly begin to turn around. While rarely as compelling as Lawrence Kasdan's steamy Body Heat, which is also set in LA, or Paul Schrader's prickly Light Sleeper, Mike's Murder effectively conjures up a sense of menace. Written and directed by James Bridges (The China Syndrome), Oscar winning composer John Barry (Out of Africa) is behind the moody score, while Night and Day-era Joe Jackson provides a smattering of piano-based pop songs. -- Kathleen C. Fennessy
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Please release the DVD
Absolutely brilliant film. I saw it over 20 years ago, and it still haunts me. If it had been made in France or Italy, it would be taught in every film school in the country. Think "True Confessions," or "Salton Sea," or "Chelsea Walls." An underappreciated American masterpiece.
Rating:  - Haunting
I had to throw my two cents in on what is probably one of the best films I've ever seen. I remember seeing this film late one night, and being glued to the set. While it is a thriller, it also plays well as a character study. Whoever owns the rights to this should put it out ASAP! Included cut footage, and include a documentary about how poorly this film was treated upon it's release. If you can find a copy on video tape, I implore you to give this cool little film a look. You'll be glad you did.
Rating: - One of my all-time faves - a thriller and character study
Such an ubderrated film!!! Not to mention the debacle around its 1984 production when the MBA's at Warner made Bridges recut and trim down the violence because some yuppies girls sniffing nosecandy in a Walnut Creek bathroom during screening broke down crying saying things like "How do they expect us to go on after seeing this?!!!" They told Bridges they would not release his film unless he made the young cokeheads feel more safe, so he spent $200,000 to recut and reshoot portions of the (still) remarkable ... Read More
Rating: - Debra Winger's shining hour
Running neck-in-neck perhaps with her work in Black Widow, this is Ms. Winger's best performance to date. Low-key and a little bit rambling, the movie's portrayal of an ordinary woman's descent into the L.A. drug culture makes you feel uncomfortable and squirmy. I hated the film when I first saw it back in 1985; yet something about it stayed with me, got under my skin, wouldn't let go --until in 1990 I rented the video, and realized "Oh my god, this film is a masterpiece." It's odd, slow and expectation ... Read More
Rating: - A thoughtful, non-linear drama.
This film is thoughtful, engaging, intriguing and mysterious. Debra Winger is both innocent and dangeriously loyal to herself and her friend, Mike. Anyone who has ever tried to save someone they love, or seeks answers to the sudden, tragic loss of that someone, will identify instantly with Winger's character.
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