Johnny Handsome overview
Overall Rating
Total Ratings: 1
Synopsis:
Small-time crook Mickey Rourke is mockingly named Johnny Handsome because of his grotesquely deformed face. While in stir on a robbery rap, Rourke is knifed by convicts in the employ of his former partner--and now bitter enemy--Lance Henriksen. While in the prison hospital, Rourke is cared for by a kindly doctor (Forrest Whitaker), who believes that the key to Rourke's rehabilitation might be a literal change of face. Undergoing plastic surgery, Rourke emerges as virtually unrecognizable to everyone but the audience.
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Movie Details:
- Director: Walter Hill
- Studio: TriStar, Carolco Pictures, Guber-Peters Company
- Year: 1989
- Run Time: 96 minutes
- Country: USA
- Language: English
- Set in: New Orleans, LA
- MPAA Rating: R
- Category: Feature
- Genre/Type: Crime
- Filmed in: Color
