Since Dennis Hopper died yesterday, I feel honour bound to visit his filmography.
This is one of those films which left an impression, mainly because of the absolute bizarreness of the plot.
A hit-man (Hopper, cast according to type), for no apparent reason, falls in love with his target (Jodie Foster, after The Accused, before Silence Of The Lambs). He catches her and then, even more unbelievably, she falls in love with him.
One wonders if this might, perhaps, have been a wish fulfilment piece written by a mafia hit-man. Whatever its genesis, one notes that the director is Alan Smithee, the Hollywood convention for a director who insists that his name is removed from the piece in disgust at the way it has been abused by those who have control of the final cut. Given that "Alan Smithee" is the name pasted over "Dennis Hopper", things become interesting. One also notes that, absent from the credits is the name Joe Pesci, despite the fact that Mr P has a not insignificant part in the proceedings.
Something clearly went very badly wrong, and not much of the story of what happened seems to be in the public domain. But it sounds to me as if it's probably a better story than the story told in the film itself!
This is one of those films which left an impression, mainly because of the absolute bizarreness of the plot.
A hit-man (Hopper, cast according to type), for no apparent reason, falls in love with his target (Jodie Foster, after The Accused, before Silence Of The Lambs). He catches her and then, even more unbelievably, she falls in love with him.
One wonders if this might, perhaps, have been a wish fulfilment piece written by a mafia hit-man. Whatever its genesis, one notes that the director is Alan Smithee, the Hollywood convention for a director who insists that his name is removed from the piece in disgust at the way it has been abused by those who have control of the final cut. Given that "Alan Smithee" is the name pasted over "Dennis Hopper", things become interesting. One also notes that, absent from the credits is the name Joe Pesci, despite the fact that Mr P has a not insignificant part in the proceedings.
Something clearly went very badly wrong, and not much of the story of what happened seems to be in the public domain. But it sounds to me as if it's probably a better story than the story told in the film itself!