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9 out of 10 people found the following comment useful :-
Needs a U.S. version of the DVD!, 1. Mai 2002
Author: wadwilchap von Kansas City, MO

A terrific, quirky film by Alan Rudolph. As an earlier reviewer wrote, he has weird things going on that are never explained. They are just features of his "alternative future". Remember that so much of the world we live in goes by, unexplained. It helps break this film away from the Hollywood-spoonfed blandness.

A real treat not commented on is Keith Carradine. A veteran of Alan Rudolph films, he has a wonderful transformation. Without any commentary, he goes from a rural-type (flannel shirt & jeans) to a denizen of the city (wild clothing, make-up, boufant hairdo). And his behavior gets more bizarre with his change in locale.

Also, watch for one of cinemas most unique murders. Let's just say it involves water, a major feature of the movie, but it takes place in a location you would never fathom.

This is one film I would love to see get the deluxe DVD treatment. Widescreen, director commentary, deleted scenes. It is an overlooked wonder.

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10 out of 12 people found the following comment useful :-
Bladerunner?, 27. August 2003

Author: praxis22 von Germany

The person who compared this film to Bladerunner is not only doing this film a disservice, but is so far from the mark as to be untrue. The chief protagonist is a cop true, and though initially spurned, he does get the girl in the end, but that's about where it ends...

From the opening strains of the muted trumpet, and Marianne Faithfull's beautifuly broken voice, this film is a masterpiece, it's moody, quirky, low key and not without a little menace, especially when Hilly Blue "puts the anchor" on Solo, "they should all blow each other's balls off, make my life easier..." to quote Lt. Gunther.

It's everything that Bladerunner isn't, if anything it's set in some alternate vision of a disfunctional 50's & 80's combined, down at heel low life's, trashy outfits, too much drab neon & hairspray, allied with a little mob glamour and modern art.

I guess I just feel for the characters, Hawk's hunger for a life he never had, the Zen stillness of Wanda, the wild eyed innocence of Georgia and the weirdness that is Coop, Solo freaking out as a Bhudhist, and last but not least, Divine in a suit... "let everybody get what they deserve..."

It's not a fast movie, or an ensemble piece, but at some deep level it resonates.

"what are you looking at?" "you a cop?" "you know damn well I'm not a cop" "that's what I'm looking at then, a woman who isn't a cop..."

It's the film I watch when I get down, I've lost track of the number of times I've watched it, I caught it first at the ICA West Bank in London, on it's last showing before they started a series of Mexican masked wrestling bario movies :) I bought it recently on DVD in a shop in Schipol airport after being delayed in Amsterdam for two hours, I'd been looking for it for years at that point... Even Amazon had it on back order.

It's really a wonderful movie, from icy lake to mountain road, I always come away from it happy, I guess you can ask no more from a movie than that.

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10 out of 12 people found the following comment useful :-
Alan Rudolph's best film holds up admirably., 19. Oktober 2001

Author: roganmarshall von Hattiesburg, Mississippi

"Trouble in Mind" is one of those movies that only reveals its greatness about the third time you see it; a wealth of details which, on first viewing, strike the perceptive viewer as scatterbrained or irrelevant, unfold on closer inspection into a rich, lushly imagined fantasy world, and dialogue which at first sounds precious or forced becomes endlessly quotable. It's hard to be an Alan Rudolph "fan," as his work is decidedly uneven; but on this picture, which followed the critical and commercial success of "Choose Me," he is at the peak of his powers. And, if none of this convinces you, you should check this one out for the performances, not least among which is Divine's startling turn as coldblooded (male) gangster Hilly Blue (worthy of awards, in a better world than this).

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7 out of 7 people found the following comment useful :-
Unusual surreal movie, 17. Januar 1999
Author: Scott Peterson von Rolla, MO

"Trouble in Mind" is a moody and decidedly different film. Take your pick as to whether it's set in an alternate reality or a retro-future. Either way, the inhabitants of Rain City are drifters and lost people whose lives collide as they go on to whatever fate awaits them. Divine makes a surprisingly good bad guy, while Kristofferson is a little wooden but still fits the part. Worth seeing.

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A strange, STRANGE film...., 24. September 2005

Author: cmndrnineveh von United States

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This film is perhaps the ONLY film to "document" what life was probably like for the vast majority of young people in working class America in the late seventies and early eighties, when a true sense of bizarreness reigned in big cities all across the country. This was the world that David Bowie, Kiss, disco and cocaine had made for everyone who had to "get out of the house at night". It was also a statement about how rough life was for anybody trying to make their way in the world during that period, where inflation was rampant and jobs were VERY difficult to come by.

This situation leads one of the characters, Koop, played by Keith Carradine, to join forces with a paranoid but educated and shady black guy by the name of Solo in a diner owned by Genevieve Bujold's character, Wanda. Also frequenting the diner, which he also lives over, is ex-cop Hawk, newly released from prison, played by Kris Kristofferson. The two clash, as Koop descends into a life of crime with Solo, trying to feed his wife and baby while Hawk develops an eye for his young wife, played by Lori Singer.

The mood of this movie has many parts: equal parts weird, compassionate, exposition, self-consciously fashionable, and stylish. It captures the zeitgeist of the period between 1975 and 1982 perfectly...the desperation of young people, especially POOR young people, to get a taste of the glitzy good life and to simply survive in a world that it is too easy to realize really IS cold and cruel!

Alan Rudolph's art director should have won an Oscar for his work on this film, as it captures the presumed time it was set in perfectly. Rudolph himself deserves kudos too, for giving the world a chronicle of the weird world of new wave-disco era, big city America. Bujold, Carradine, Morton, Singer and even Kristofferson are good in it as well.

This is the middle one of three great movies Rudolph produced in the mid-to-late eighties that he and his repertoire company, (usually just Bujold and Carradine,) can be justifiably proud. These are "Choose Me", "The Moderns" and this one. "The Moderns" must be seen to be believed. As good as the mood setting is in "TiM", "The Moderns" walks all over it.

Enjoy.

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Weird and wonderful, 19. Juli 2001
Author: Jeffrey D. Sarver (basilseal1) von Sarasota, Florida

Alan Rudolph's 'Trouble in Mind' has kept coming back to haunt me over the years. Rudolph's vogue was in the late '80s and ended as quickly as it began for some unknown reason. His films are, if nothing else, original and fascinating. Rudolph always set his movies in some sort of nightmare future, and often disturbingly probable futures. 'Trouble in Mind' is set in "Rain City" aka Seattle in some sort of post-war world where Japanese is as widely spoken by the populace as English. There are enigmas, typical of Rudolph, which are not explained but allowed to simply "be there" as part of the setting. This is refreshing after all the didactic, over-explained and simple-minded plots lobbed at us out of Hollywood. Rudolph, a protegée of Robert Altman, was, like Altman, not really in the Hollywood rut, but unlike Altman and Woody Allen, has not successfully maintained an ongoing production line of new work. I think 'Troube in Mind' is his best film. The story is intriguing and cogent and intellectually challenging as well as beautiful to look at. The only weaknesses or "faux" moments are the moments aphoristic philosophizing by certain of the characters. But these are quickly passed over and forgotten. There are some superb performances from some of Rudolph's regular actors like Genevieve Bujold and Keith Carradine. Kris Kristofferson is also fine as Hawk, the neer-do-well "bad" cop with a heart and a brain. But it is the wonderful performance of Lori Singer that sets the seal on this fine movie. What has happened to her? And then, last but not least, there is Divine in his only performance as a man. And yes, he could act, and he was funny and had charisma without the wig and the high heels and the make-up. There are also excellent performances from the supporting cast, notably, George Kirby as the police chief and Joe Morton as a strange, twisted veteren of some Viet Nam type scenario. The whole thing is sandwiched in between the ever-wonderful vocalizing of Marianne Faithfull's singing of the theme song "Trouble in Mind". A fascinating and haunting film too often dismissed as half-baked and confusing. If you love 'Blade Runner' you'll like 'Trouble in Mind'. In fact they make a fine double feature.

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One of the most Underrated, 7. Dezember 2005

Author: MadFish von finland

Trouble in Mind is a masterpiece from Alan Rudolph - the most underrated movie director of USA.

It's a great analysis of the amoral society where everyone is ready to sell a soul for his, his friend's or at least for his child's future. In the game of life only the ones wise enough to play with small bets survive.

80's were an afterglow of the 70's criticism against the weak but high developed systems. Although films like "To live and to die in L.A" got the most attention in this area, Trouble in Mind won't have to be ashamed no bit.

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once upon a time...in the future, 26. Juni 2006

Author: Raegan Butcher von Raincity, Pacific Northwest

This is a great piece of atmospheric low budget film-making. Alan Rudolph successfully uses the avant garde architecture of Seattle and its rain-slicked streets to bring to life the funky Neo-noir metropolis known as Rain City, inhabited by a set of off-beat characters who could have stepped from the pages of a Raymond Chandler novel, my favorite of which is a gangster played by the one and only DIVINE, in his only male-gendered role. It is one of the films unique pleasures to watch him growl at his henchmen and threaten (in his sweet-voiced way) to have Kris Kristofferson's knuckle- bones made into dice and he even gets to say the films best line: "Everyone wants to go to Heaven but no one wants to die!"

This is a film that is just begging for a DVD release. As others have mentioned, the audience for this film is definitely out there

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5 out of 8 people found the following comment useful :-
Moody masterpiece..., 15. August 2002

Author: poe426 von USA

The forecast is overcast. Director Alan Rudolph sets the tone early on and TROUBLE IN MIND never once strikes a sour note. The cinematography is superb: the camera never stops moving, drifting slowly toward or pulling slowly away from the ex-con, Kristofferson, the country bumpkin-cum-Big City thug, Carradine, his mentor, Morton, the naive engenue, Singer, the survivor, Bujold, or the king of queens, Divine. The story unfolds gradually, logically. The music is appropriately moody. THIS is the way to tell a story. Anyone seriously interested in writing or directing needs to add this one to their list of must-see movies. To miss it would be to miss out.

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Trouble in the script, acting, direction, photography..., 2. Januar 2007

Author: reidy_christopher von United States

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I really wanted to like "Trouble In Mind" and maybe someday I will; but I have to say this film is a muck-in fess. As I was watching it I realized it's some sort of misguided attempt at remaking Bladerunner, albeit as a lame, no budget Robert Altman comedy. As you may recall, Rudolph was a protégé of Robert Altman and he seems to have picked up a few things from that master. Namely, muddy sound recording and a heavy finger on the Zoom button. You know there's a problem with a movie when the best actor is Divine and all you can think about when the ingénue comes on screen is pushing her off the Seattle Space Needle. If this film taught me anything, it's that Evil is determined by hair height and Keith Carradine looks terrible as Ziggy Stardust. A few random thoughts (much like the script): The future looks a lot like the '80's. Kris Kristofferson is downright peppy compared to the pace of this movie. Genevieve Bujold is on crack. A shootout for a climax should never be staged as comedy. A bizarre dwarf like woman with Big Hair steals the movie. Do not attempt depicting "the future" on a low budget. What was up with the black guy who lived in the clock tower? Events in your screenplay should contribute to the story. Maybe it was the lousy video transfer I watched that made me actively dislike this film...and maybe someday I will see it again and it will grow on me (I think that could be possible) but right now, this movie is lodged in my mind, and that's trouble.

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