October 12 1990 

Dennis Hopper’s steamy, neo-noir, pulpy potboiler The Hot Spot premieres. Written by Charles Williams and Nona Tyson from Williams’ 1952 novel Hell Hath No Fury, Don Johnson stars as a laconic, small-time grifter who tumbleweeds into a small, sun-scorched Texas backwater where his bank-robbing plans get side-tracked by a nubile young receptionist and a lubricious housewife with murder on her mind. An exceptionally well-crafted,  exercise in libidinous duplicity featuring Jennifer Connolly and Virginia Madsen as the sultry, sexually provocative femme fatales.

 

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