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Fool for Love

Fool for Love

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Release Date

12/6/1985

Runtime

106 mins

Genres

Overview

A woman is waiting in a motel for her boyfriend, when an old flame turns up and tries to take her back to the life she is trying to leave behind.

Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

-

Revenue

-

Homepage

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An intense, claustrophobic chamber piece where two exes collide in a motel room, dredging up the violent past they share. Watching it feels like being trapped inside a relationship's raw, unresolved core.

Mood

TenseUnsettlingMournful

Themes

LoveRedemptionIdentityAddiction

Tone

Earnest

Pacing

Slow-burn

Look

Naturalistic

Structure

Single location

Heads up

Graphic violence

Sam Shepard

Sam Shepard

Eddie

Kim Basinger

Kim Basinger

May

Harry Dean Stanton

Harry Dean Stanton

Old Man

Randy Quaid

Randy Quaid

Martin

Martha Crawford

Martha Crawford

May's Mother

Louise Egolf

Eddie's Mother

Sura Cox

May / Teenage

Jonathan Skinner

Eddie / Teenage

April Russell

May / Young

Deborah McNaughton

The Countess

Lon Hill

Mr. Valdes

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