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“My name is Tom Van Allen. Or Danny Parker. I honesty don’t know anymore. You can decide. Yeah, maybe you can help me, friend. As you can see I don’t have a hell of a lot of time left.” So says the voice of Tom/Danny (Val Kilmer), wailing on a trumpet as flames engulf [...]

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When his exhaustive knowledge of Elvis Presley fails to convince a woman he meets a bar to watch a triple feature of Sonny Chiba movies with him, Clarence Worley (Christian Slater) goes to the theater alone. There he meets Alabama Whitman (Patricia Arquette) when she spills popcorn on him. Taking a seat next to [...]

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Emerging from Folsom State Prison after six years, Max Dembo (Dustin Hoffman) returns to Los Angeles. He spends his first night of freedom eating a hot dog and wandering the city streets. Checking in the next day with his parole officer, Earl Frank (M. Emmet Walsh), Max is verbally reprimanded for failing to show [...]

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Viggo Mortensen was born October 20, 1958 in Manhattan. His Danish father had met his American mother skiing in Norway, where she worked in the U.S. Embassy. Mortensen spent much of his childhood in Argentina, where his father found work managing a ranch. His parents divorced when he was 11 and Mortensen returned to upstate [...]

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