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TITLE Johnny Handsome (1989)

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DISABILITY Disfigurement Facial

COUNTRY USA

LENGTH 94

GENRE Crime drama

DIRECTOR Walter Hill

CAST Mickey Rourke

Ellen Barkin

Elizabeth McGovern

Morgan Freeman

Forest Whitaker

Lance Henriksen

Scott Wilson

NOTES A jewel store robbery goes sour when two of the robbers (a

man and a woman) kill the others involved except for one who

is caught and sent to prison. There he is stabbed by a fellow

prisoner on the orders of the two robbers who got away.

In hospital it is reported he has died but in fact he's given a

new face and a chance to go straight. But he contacts the

two robbers to join him in a wages snatch at the place where

he works. In reality it's a means to get back at them. And in

the end all of them are killed. A policeman, Morgan Freeman,

always sceptical of his motives philosophies that his

disfigured condition was always on the inside.

Worth considering for promoting discussion.

 


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