The Hot Spot

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Original title: The Hot Spot
Year: 1990
Running time: 129 min.
Country: United States
Director: Dennis Hopper
Screenwriter: Nona Tyson, Charles Williams. Novel: Charles Williams
Music: Jack Nitzsche
Cinematography: Ueli Steiger
Cast: Don Johnson, Virginia Madsen, Jennifer Connelly, Charles Martin Smith, William Sadler, Jerry Hardin, Barry Corbin, Leon Rippy, Jack Nance, Virgil Frye, Margaret Bowman, Debra Cole, Cody Haynes, James N. Harrell
Producer: Orion Pictures
Genre: Film noir. Thriller | Crime. Neo-noir
Synopsis: When the drifter Harry Madox reaches a small town in Texas, he gets a job as used car salesman with the dealer George Harshaw and settles down in a hotel room. During a fire, Harry observes that the local bank is left empty and open without any security. Sooner he plots a scheme to rob the bank, provoking a fire in his room to distract the employees. When Harry meets George's wife Dolly Harshaw, the easy woman teases him and they have sex. Harry becomes the prime suspect of the bank heist and is arrested, but Dolly provided the necessary alibi to release him and blackmails him to have a love affair with her. However, Harry falls in love for Gloria Harper, who works as accountant in the dealership. He discovers that Gloria is blackmailed by the despicable Frank Sutton and he decides to press Sutton. But in the end, Dolly gets what she wants.

Critics' reviews

"Only movie lovers who have marinated their imaginations in the great B movies from RKO and Republic will recognize The Hot Spot as a superior work in an old tradition"

Roger Ebert: Chicago Sun-Times
"A crazy, intentionally ludicrous movie that's a lot of film-noir fun."

Desson Thomson: The Washington Post

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