Trouble in Mind (1985) [R]

Featuring:
Kris Kristofferson, Keith Carradine, Lori Singer

Written by:
Alan Rudolph

Directed by:
Alan Rudolph


Release Date:
December 11, 1985

Original Title:
Trouble in Mind

Alternate Titles:
Wana's Cafe

Genres:
Comedy | Crime | Drama

Production Companies:
Embassy Home Entertainment
Pfeiffer/Blocker Production

Production Countries:
United States of America

Ratings / Certifications:
GB: 15  US: R 

Runtime: 111

Drugs, sex, crime… Rain City has it all. Here everyone gets what they want — or what they deserve.

The lives of an ex-con, a coffee-shop owner, and a young couple looking to make it rich intersect in the hypnotic Rain City.

In the metropolis of Rain City which is run under a military state, Wanda's Café is the meeting point for several individuals, who, in the words of Lt. Gunther of the police department, are converging on "the shit (they're) wallowing in". Former Rain City police officer John Hawkins - Hawk to his friends - has just been released from prison where he served eight years for murder, a crime to which he readily admits. He killed Fat Adolph, a mobster, in an effort to clean up the streets and protect the ones he loved. He has returned to Wanda's - Wanda who was his former lover - to restart his life. Straightforward Wanda still loves Hawk, but is not in love with him, and as such offers him a place to stay with no strings. Wanda has just hired largely innocent Georgia to work in the café. Penniless Georgia and her husband Coop have just arrived in Rain City with their infant son Spike in the run-down camper in which they live. They believed moving to the city - their first time ever in such - would solve all their problems. Frustrated Coop has been unable to find work, so he ends up hooking up with another Wanda's regular, a criminal named Solo. The power and money associated with this new criminal life changes Coop. His and Solo's problem is that their criminal activities are impinging on that of a more ruthless criminal named Hilly Blue, who will not sit idly by without getting what he considers his fair share of the activity. In the meantime, Hawk starts to fall for Georgia, who is torn between the love she felt for the man she married as opposed to who Coop has become, and the support provided by Hawk, who wants to care for her and Spike. Hawk has to decide what to do to help Georgia while getting what he wants for his renewed life.

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Rankings and Honors

Trouble in Mind (1985) on IMDb
Internet Movie Database 6.4/10
Rotten Tomatoes 81%
Metacritic 78/100
Awards Won: 2 wins & 3 nominations

Boom Operator:
Robert Jackson

Costume Design:
Tracy Tynan

Director:
Alan Rudolph

Director of Photography:
Toyomichi Kurita

Editor:
Tom Walls

Executive Producer:
Cary Brokaw

Foley Editor:
John Hoeren

Makeup Artist:
Edward Ternes

Original Music Composer:
Mark Isham

Producer:
David Blocker
Carolyn Pfeiffer

Production Design:
Steven Legler

Production Sound Mixer:
Ron Judkins

Set Decoration:
K.C. Fox

Sound Editor:
Frank Smathers

Sound Effects Editor:
Hamilton Sterling

Sound Re-Recording Mixer:
Richard Portman

Supervising Sound Editor:
Dody Dorn

Writer:
Alan Rudolph

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