Mike's Murder

1984
18
1h 49m

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5.8/10

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In L.A., a young woman tries to uncover what led to the brutal murder of her old flame and who killed him.In L.A., a young woman tries to uncover what led to the brutal murder of her old flame and who killed him.In L.A., a young woman tries to uncover what led to the brutal murder of her old flame and who killed him.

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IMDb RATING

5.8/10

1.1K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Richard
(as Daniel Shor)

William Ostrander

Randy

Gregory Hormel

Kid Drug Buyer

John Stewart

Tough Guy #1
(as John Michael Stewart)

Víctor Pérez

Tough Guy #2
(as Victor Perez)

Mark Brandon

Ben
(as a different name)

Ken Y. Namba

Sushi Chef

Ruth Winger

Betty's Mother

April Ferry

Bosslady

Randy White

Bossman

Robert Kincaid

Bodyguard

Kym Malin

Beautiful Girl #1

Director
- James Bridges
Writer
- James Bridges
All cast & crew
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Storyline

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Trivia
Writer-director James Bridges originally wrote and edited the film so that the story played chronologically backward, similar to what Memento and Irreversible did 16 years later. However, the studio got nervous, thinking it was too complicated and hard to follow, and had the film re-edited in chronological order for release.

Goofs
Mike's cigarette changing of position in between shots during the car scene. First the cigarette is unlit in his mouth but during close-ups on his face the cigarette disappears, and when the camera changes to another position he's holding a half lit cigarette.

Quotes
Philip: You want to know everything? Well, believe me you don't. This was an enforcement killing. I mean they were making a statement.
Betty: What statement?
Philip: Are you the girl with the, uh, C scale out of tune?

Connections
Featured in At the Movies: Hard to Hold/Tank/Moscow on the Hudson/Mike's Murder (1984)

Soundtracks
Without You
Written by Pete Ham (uncredited) and Tom Evans (uncredited)
Performed by Chaz Jankel
Courtesy of A&M Records, Inc.

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Review

Featured review

9/10

Forgotten neo-noir gem . . . grossly undervalued

For some inexplicable reason, critics find this film hard to follow. Actually, it's very coherent and surprisingly powerful. Debra Winger plays a bank employee who falls for her tennis coach, a young stud named Mike. When Mike is brutally murdered by drug dealers, Winger's character, Betty, is drawn into the L.A. underworld in her quest to find out why he was killed. What makes this film so great is its quiet realism. Most latter day noirs suffer from over-the-top plotting, mega-violence, and cartoonish effects. Moving by indirection and inference, MIKE'S MURDER skirts a hellish world rather than diving in, a narrative strategy that makes it eerily believable and deeply disturbing. Check it out.