Tom Noonan
Also Known As: Richmond Arrley, Lodovico Sorret, Ludovico Sorret, تام نونان
Biography: Tom Noonan (born April 12, 1951) is an American actor, director, and screenwriter. He is best known for his roles as Francis Dolarhyde in Manhunter (1986), Frankenstein's Monster in The Monster Squad (1987), Cain in RoboCop 2 (1990), The Ripper in Last Action Hero (1993), Sammy Barnathan in Synecdoche, New York (2008), Reverend Nathaniel in Hell on Wheels (2011–2014), the Pallid Man in 12 Monkeys (2015–2018) and as the voice of everyone but the two main characters in Anomalisa (2015). Noonan is also a writer and director of theatre and film. His debut feature film What Happened Was (1994) won the Dramatic Grand Jury Prize and Screenwriting Award at the Sundance Film Festival. Description above from the Wikipedia article Tom Noonan, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Greenwich, Connecticut, USA
Birthday: April 12, 1951
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Gender: Male
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Heat
Overview: Obsessive master thief Neil McCauley leads a top-notch crew on various daring heists throughout Los Angeles while determined detective Vincent Hanna pursues him without rest. Each man recognizes and respects the ability and the dedication of the other even though they are aware their cat-and-mouse game may end in violence.
Genres: Crime Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-12-15
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The Astronaut's Wife
Overview: When astronaut Spencer Armacost returns to Earth after a mission that nearly cost him his life, he decides to take a desk job in order to see his beautiful wife, Jillian, more often. Gradually, Jillian notices that Spencer's personality seems to have changed, but her concerns fade when she discovers that she's pregnant. As Jillian grows closer to becoming a mother, her suspicions about Spencer return. Why does it seem as if he's a different person?
Genres: Drama Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-08-27
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The Man with One Red Shoe
Overview: A man is mistaken as a spy by the CIA when he arrives at the airport with one red shoe.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-07-18
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Heaven's Gate
Overview: Harvard graduate James Averill is the sheriff of prosperous Jackson County, Wyo., when a battle erupts between the area's poverty-stricken immigrants and its wealthy cattle farmers. The politically connected ranch owners fight the immigrants with the help of Nathan Champion, a mercenary competing with Averill for the love of local madam Ella Watson. As the struggle escalates, Averill and Champion begin to question their decisions.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-11-19
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Synecdoche, New York
Overview: A theater director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he attempts to create a life-size replica of New York inside a warehouse as part of his new play.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-10-24
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RoboCop 2
Overview: After a successful deployment of the RoboCop Law Enforcement unit, OCP sees its goal of urban pacification come closer and closer, but as this develops, a new narcotic known as "Nuke" invades the streets led by God-delirious leader Cane. As this menace grows, it may prove to be too much for Murphy to handle. OCP tries to replicate the success of the first unit, but ends up with failed prototypes with suicidal issues... until Dr. Faxx, a scientist straying away from OCP's path, uses Cane as the new subject for the RoboCop 2 project, a living God.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-06-22
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The Pledge
Overview: A police chief about to retire pledges to help a woman find her daughter's killer.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-01-19
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Knockaround Guys
Overview: Four sons of well-known New York mobsters must retrieve a bag of cash from a small Montana town ruled by a corrupt sheriff.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-11-30
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Manhunter
Overview: FBI Agent Will Graham, who retired after catching Hannibal Lecter, returns to duty to engage in a risky cat-and-mouse game with Lecter to capture a new killer.
Genres: Crime Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-08-14
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The House of the Devil
Overview: A young college student who’s struggling financially takes a strange babysitting job which coincides with a full lunar eclipse. She slowly realizes her clients harbor a terrifying secret, putting her life in mortal danger.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-10-30
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Seraphim Falls
Overview: The Civil War has ended, but Colonel Morsman Carver is on one final mission – to kill Gideon, no matter what it takes. Launched by a gunshot and propelled by rage, the relentless pursuit takes the two men through frigid snow-capped mountains and arid deserts, far from the comforts and codes of civilisation, into the bloodiest recesses of their own souls.
Genres: Western Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-01-26
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The Roost
Overview: Following a near-death car accident, four friends on their way to a Halloween wedding, venture to a secluded farm for help. Little do they know however, they will soon disturb an ancient evil with far more ghastly plans in store for them...
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-03-12
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The Monster Squad
Overview: Count Dracula adjourns to Earth, accompanied by Frankenstein's Monster, the Wolfman, the Mummy, and the Gillman. The uglies are in search of a powerful amulet that will grant them power to rule the world. Our heroes - the Monster Squad are the only ones daring to stand in their way.
Genres: Comedy Action Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-08-14
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Phoenix
Overview: Gambling fever -- along with a brutal bookie -- leads three crooked cops into a double-dealing scheme that lands them in hot water way over their heads.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-09-04
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Snow Angels
Overview: Waitress Annie has separated from her suicidal alcoholic husband, Glenn. Glenn has become an evangelical Christian, but his erratic attempts at getting back into Annie's life have alarmed her. High school student Arthur works at Annie's restaurant, growing closer to a new kid in town, Lila, after class. When Glenn and Annie's daughter go missing, the whole town searches for her, as he increasingly spirals out of control.
Genres: Drama Romance Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-03-07
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Gloria
Overview: When a young boy's family is killed by the mob, their tough neighbor Gloria becomes his reluctant guardian. In possession of a book that the gangsters want, the pair go on the run in New York.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-10-01
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Easy Money
Overview: To inherit his mother-in-law's colossal fortune, a hard living gambling addict must change his unhealthy ways before it gets the best of him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-08-19
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Tom Goes to the Bar
Overview: It's business as usual at the bar. Suddenly, a man drops down from the top of the screen and hangs upside down at the bar. The bartender reacts as if it was normal and hands him a drink. Tom sips it quietly until mayhem ensues.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1985-10-17
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What Happened Was...
Overview: Jackie and Michael are coworkers at a large law firm. They decide to meet at Jackie's for dinner one night.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-09-09
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The Wife
Overview: A sudden visit from a patient and his unstable, outrageously candid wife leads to a delirious night of shattering revelations for a husband and wife team of therapists.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-04-21
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Collision Course
Overview: A Japanese investigator and a Detroit cop team up to track down a stolen prototype turbocharger.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-04-27
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The Photographer
Overview: A year after becoming the toast of New York City's art scene, photographer Max Martin has lost his ability to take a decent picture. On the night before his make-or-break gallery opening, surrounded by the trappings of success but devoid of inspiration, Max embarks on a bizarre trek through the city in search of ten mysterious photographs that could save his career. Shot in brilliant color and dramatic black and white, first-time director Jeremy Stein's industrial New York City is a wonderland, roamed by witches and magical creatures, where survival hinges on the completion of a simple quest. Accompanied by an unlikely crew of strangers he meets along the way, Max trips through a modern-day Oz and rediscovers the easily forgotten value of seeing magic reflected in everyday life.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-04-15
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The 10 Million Dollar Getaway
Overview: Jimmy Burke and his friends steal 10 million from the Lufthansa office in New York. The FBI has no idea who the thieves are until Burke girlfriend gives them a hint. When word leaks out a Mafia boss puts a killer on the gang's trail.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-03-06
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The Opportunists
Overview: Vic is a struggling auto mechanic with a safe-cracking past and a lot of debt. His girlfriend runs a bar and offers to loan him the money she's saved for remodeling, but Vic is reluctant to take it. When a long-lost cousin from Ireland shows up on his doorstep, the two team up for one last heist.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-05-17
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They're Made Out of Meat
Overview: After years of investigation, an alien meets with his partner in a diner to discuss an unbelievably shocking discovery.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-09-11
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Ice Cream Ants
Overview: The story of a man known only as Lover, who is thrust into a surreal world of strange nightmares and deadly visions.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-07-29
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Inside 'Manhunter'
Overview: A DVD Special Feature documentary on the experience of turning the chilling novel "Red Dragon" into a motion picture, all told through the actors and director of the first interpretation on film of the hideously complex Hannibal Lecter. Features interviews with Director Michael Mann, and actors Brian Cox, William Petersen, Tom Noonan, and Joan Allen.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-02-13
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Late Phases
Overview: When deadly attacks from a nearby forest beset a secluded retirement community, it is up to a blind army veteran to discover what the residents are hiding.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-11-21
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The Odds
Overview: Bookie never refuses a bet. Bettor only bets long shots and beats impossible odds each time. Bookie's latest bet is that bettor will die of natural causes by 8:00 am tomorrow.
Genres: Thriller Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-10-21
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F/X
Overview: A movies special effects man is hired by a government agency to help stage the assassination of a well known gangster. When the agency double cross him, he uses his special effects to trap the gangster and the corrupt agents.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-02-07
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The Making of 'Heat'
Overview: Behind the scenes documentary on the classic Michael Mann heist film.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-02-22
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Hair High
Overview: Bill Plympton's gothic '50s high-school comedy about a love-triangle that goes terribly wrong. Two murdered teens return from the grave, then go to their prom to get revenge.
Genres: Horror Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-04-17
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What Happened Was...
Overview: Tom Noonan's What Happened Was... ran as a play for 5 weeks at Noonan's Paradise Theater on E. 4th Street in New York City in the Spring of 1992. This is the version of the film Noonan and DP Joe Desalvo shot on Beta video there using the still-standing set in order to rehearse the eventual 35mm film location shoot as much as possible before hand, as recounted by Noonan in various interviews:
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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Mystery Train
Overview: In Memphis, Tennessee, over the course of a single night, the Arcade Hotel, run by an eccentric night clerk and a clueless bellboy, is visited by a young Japanese couple traveling in search of the roots of rock; an Italian woman in mourning who stumbles upon a fleeing charlatan girl; and a comical trio of accidental thieves looking for a place to hide.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-09-06
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Stoney
Overview: A man and his backyard.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-06-01
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Wang Dang
Overview: Wang Dang is the real-time story of a washed-up director who's come to an unnamed film school to speak on the adventures of his career and ends up entertaining two nubile graduate students in his seedy off-campus motel room
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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Last Action Hero
Overview: After his father's death, a young boy finds solace in action movies featuring an indestructible cop. Given a magic ticket by a theater manager, he is transported into the film and teams up with the cop to stop a villain who escapes into the real world.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Action Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-06-18
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Wonderstruck
Overview: The story of a young boy in the Midwest is told simultaneously with a tale about a young girl in New York from fifty years ago as they both seek the same mysterious connection.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-10-13
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Corporate Wars: The Making of 'RoboCop 2'
Overview: This retrospective features both archival and 2017 interviews with cast and crew members. It includes interviews with CG supervisor Paul M. Sammon, executive producer Patrick Crowley, associate producer Phil Tippett, cinematographer Mark Irwin as well as actors Nancy Allen, Tom Noonan, and Galyn Görg. Sammon's 1989/90 interviews with producer Jon Davidson and director Irvin Kershner are excerpted. There is also vintage rehearsal and BTS footage.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-03-21
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Eddie Macon's Run
Overview: Eddie Macon is running from a nightmare... running to a dream... running for his life and his time is running out. He's escaped a Texas prison for the second time (risking life imprisonment if caught) to make it back to his wife and son. Relentlessly pursued by ruthless truant officer, Carl Marzack, who feels he must prove he can still 'get his man' by returning Macon to jail at any cost.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-03-23
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Uncovering Wolfen
Overview: After the huge financial and cultural success of WOODSTOCK (1970), filmmaker and political activist Michael Wadleigh spent many years in Hollywood writing scripts that were never produced. However, WOLFEN (1981), his only other major motion picture, was. After that he would never complete another feature film again. This is the story of that film.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-02-02
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Bullet In The Brain
Overview: Outspokenly critical writing teacher allows his criticism to extend to his everyday life and soon learns why that is not a good idea. While the titular "Bullet in the Brain" does its work, we learn by example a bit about the art of writing.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-10-24
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A Constant Forge
Overview: One of the great mavericks of cinema, John Cassavetes has earned a reputation as the godfather of American independent movies. The actor-turned-filmmaker invented a realist style of unadorned narrative films heavily influenced by documentaries. This in-depth analysis of Cassavetes' life and work features interviews with key collaborators and ensemble regulars, and explores the making of classics like "The Killing of a Chinese Bookie," "Opening Night" and "A Woman Under the Influence."
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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The Shape of Something Squashed
Overview: Tom Noonan's play-turned-film 'What Happened Was...' won the Sundance Grand Jury Prize for Best Dramatic Feature in 1994. Now, 20 years later, Noonan has returned to his roots with the SHAPE of SOMETHING SQUASHED, an independent film developed from his latest theatrical hit. It tells the story of an older 'has been' actor who is asked to participate in a read-through of a play at a legendary theater company. The production depends on the success of the read-through, but unbeknownst to the actor he is only standing in for a star playing hard to get. Each character is desperate for their world to become what they've dreamed, making this story both funny and heartbreaking in its depiction of life in, and out of, the theater.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-05-15
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Stephen King's Monster Stories
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Genres: Horror
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1988-03-05
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Rage!
Overview: In an attempt to be rehabilitated, a rapist goes to therapy while in prison.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-09-25
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Wolfen
Overview: A New York City cop and an expert criminologist trying to solve a series of grisly deaths in which the victims have seemingly been maimed by feral animals discover a sinister connection between the crimes and an old legend.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-07-24
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Eight Legged Freaks
Overview: The residents of a rural mining town discover that an unfortunate chemical spill has caused hundreds of little spiders to mutate overnight to the size of SUVs. It's then up to mining engineer Chris McCormack and Sheriff Sam Parker to mobilize an eclectic group of townspeople, including the Sheriff's young son, Mike, her daughter, Ashley, and paranoid radio announcer Harlan, into battle against the bloodthirsty eight-legged beasts.
Genres: Action Comedy Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-07-17
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A Buck's Worth
Overview: Gun in hand, a homeless man requests a dollar.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-01-21
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Willie and Phil
Overview: Life imitates art when two Manhattanites — pompous teacher Willie and quiet photographer Phil — become friends after a thought-provoking screening of "Jules et Jim," Truffaut's classic film about a decades-long ménage à trois. Soon, the men meet Jeanette, a sexually liberated southern transplant who promptly falls for both of them. Frustrated passions curdle into jealousy as Jeanette entertains love affairs with each in the ensuing years.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-08-15
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The Alphabet Killer
Overview: Based on the true story of double killings occurring in Rochester, NY during the 80’s and the troubled police officer determined to solve them, with or without the help of her department
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-11-07
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Monster Squad Forever!
Overview: This is a feature-length look into the creation of the 20 year old cult-classic, Monster Squad, including interviews with writer/director Fred Dekker, stars Tom Noonan, Duncan Regehr, Andre Gower and more.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-07-01
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Anomalisa
Overview: An inspirational speaker becomes reinvigorated after meeting a lively woman who shakes up his mundane existence.
Genres: Animation Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-12-30
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Best Defense
Overview: An engineer fails to get the bugs out of a tank before an Army officer has to use it in Kuwait.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-07-20
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None of Them Are You: Crafting Anomalisa
Overview: A behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson's 2015 stop-motion animated drama Anomalisa.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-06-07
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Bone Daddy
Overview: Short written, directed by, and starring Tom Noonan.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-06-01
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Madness and Genius
Overview: Toronto International Film Festival 2003
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-09-30
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Doris and Inez Speak the Truth
Overview: His queer performance melodrama Doris and Inez Speak the Truth, adapted from a Squat Theatre production, centers on two weary transgender characters struggling to find a version of heterosexual normality. The film features the final role for Warhol superstar Jackie Curtis and one of the first for rising off-Broadway actor-director Tom Noonan.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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