Mortal Thoughts
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Actor: Bruce Willis, Demi Moore, Glenne Headly, Harvey Keitel, John PankowBrand: SONY PICTURES HOME ENT
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; Spanish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 102 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1998-08-25
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Movie Reviews of Mortal Thoughts
Movie Review: Muscular Mystery Set in New Jersey's White Working Class
Summary: 5 Stars
"Mortal Thoughts" (1991), produced by one of its own stars, Demi Moore, and directed by Alan Rudolph, is very different from that director's usual laidback work. It presents viewers with one tough little low-budget mystery, set in the New Jersey city of Bayonne, among its white, urban working class, in the drug-addled 1980's: check out the big hair.
The film centers on two hairdressers, best friends since infancy, now married, with young children, and working together: Joyce Urbanski, played by Glenne Headley, unhappily married to James (Bruce Willis); and Cynthia Kellogg (Moore), married to Arthur (John Pankow). Harvey Keitel plays police detective John Wood, who comes into their lives. Willis takes big brave chances playing in his wife, Demi Moore's movie, as an obnoxious, drug-addicted, abusive husband who's wearing red pants when he finally gets his. The story's narrated in flashback by Cynthia, as she tells it to the police: there's an aspect of "Rashomon:" here, as we know only what she tells us, and must decide whether her tale is truthful or not. (And we never do get all the mysteries exactly explained.)
Interestingly enough, three of the five principals are of working-class origins themselves. Demi Moore was raised in a series of trailer parks; her family moved 40 times; and she quit school at 16 to work as a pinup. Willis actually grew up in New Jersey, attended Montclair State University there, and worked as a waiter and bartender before finally hitting his stride. Keitel was born in Brooklyn, a borough of New York City. The working class roots of these actors surely give a sense of reality and solidity to their portrayals here. Headley is odd man out in this crowd; she's from a pretty classy Connecticut town, and was educated in Switzerland: nevertheless, her portrayal -- and accent-- are accurate. Headley was odd man out among this picture's company in another way: Moore, Willis, and Keitel were all suffering career slumps when they made it.
The death of Joyce's husband sends the two old friends into collusion: both mindful of their young children, they work together to try to clean up their mess. Moore looks beautiful, and her acting is affecting, she's by turns vulnerable, determined, cornered, downcast. She really can be said to carry her own movie. Finally, it's really an uusual pleasure, still, to watch two prime actresses carry a movie such as this.
Summary of Mortal Thoughts
CYNTHIA COMES FORWARD TO TALK TO DETECTIVE JOHN ABOUT THE MURDEROF HER BEST FRIEND'S HUSBAND. THE STORY IS TOLD AS A SERIES OFFLASHBACKSSimilar DVD Movies
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