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Johnny Handsome is a 1989 American neo-noir crime thriller film directed by Walter Hill and starring Mickey Rourke, Ellen Barkin, Forest Whitaker and Morgan Freeman. The film was written by Ken Friedman, and adapted from the novel The Three Worlds of Johnny Handsome by John Godey.
Johnny Handsome. Mickey Rourke as Johnny Handsome. Film noir: A motion picture with an often grim urban setting, photographed in somber tones and permeated by a feeling of disillusionment, pessimism and despair. -- Random House Dictionary.
Sep 29, 1989 · Johnny Handsome is a deformed gangster who plans a successful robbery with a friend of his, Mikey Chalmette, and another couple (Sunny Boid and Rafe Garrett). During the heist, Johnny and Mikey are double-crossed by Sunny and Rafe---Mikey is killed and Johnny sent to prison.
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- Crime, Drama, Thriller
- Walter Hill
- 1989-09-29
Oct 8, 2008 · At one point, he looks back at himself, and breaks out into laughter, touching his face delicately with his fingers, saying, amazed, ‘I feel like I still have a mask on …” It’s an unbelievable moment of truth, captured on screen.
A career criminal who has been deformed since birth is given a new face by a kindly doctor and paroled from prison. It appears that he has gone straight, but he is really planning his revenge on the man who killed his mentor and sent him to prison.
A crook, given a new identity by reconstructive surgery, plots revenge against the gangsters who double-crossed him.
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- Crime, Drama
- R
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Johnny Sedley (Mickey Rourke) is a gangster with facial deformities that have haunted him since birth. In a heist at an antique store, Johnny’s best friend Mickey is killed by two accomplices, Rafe (Lance Henrickson) and Sunny (Ellen Barkin).
