Tough Guys Don't Dance

Sep 18, 1987

1h 49m

★ 4.6

A love story haunted by murder.

Overview

Tim Madden awakens one morning to discover a fresh tattoo on his arm, his car covered in blood, his girlfriend in bed with the town sheriff, and a woman's severed head in his weed stash. Sensing a setup and in desperate need to clear his name, he begins an investigation that soon begins to expose a web of corruption in the small coastal community of Provincetown.

Genres

Comedy

Crime

Thriller

Production Companies

Golan-Globus Productions

The Cannon Group

American Zoetrope

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Cast

Tim Madden

Ryan O'Neal

Madeleine Regency

Isabella Rossellini

Patty Lareine

Debra Stipe

Capt. Alvin Luther Regency

Wings Hauser

Wardley Meeks III

John Bedford Lloyd

Dougy Madden

Lawrence Tierney

Big Stoop

Penn Jillette

Jessica Pond

Frances Fisher

Spider

John Snyder

Stoodie

Stephan Morrow

Bolo

Clarence Williams III

Beth

Kathryn Sanders

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