{"id":40313,"date":"2025-10-22T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=40313"},"modified":"2025-10-21T15:22:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T19:22:19","slug":"trouble-in-mind-1985-written-directed-by-alan-rudolph-starring-kris-kristofferson-keith-carradine-lori-singer-and-genevieve-bujold-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=40313","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Trouble in Mind&#8221; (1985) written &amp; directed by Alan Rudolph; starring Kris Kristofferson, Keith Carradine, Lori Singer and Genevi\u00e8ve Bujold \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z102225zview_troubleinmind.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"746\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Trouble in Mind <\/strong><\/em>(1985)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director:\u00a0 <strong>Alan Rudolph<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Alan Rudolph<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Kris Kristofferson, Keith Carradine, Lori Singer, Genevi\u00e8ve Bujold, Joe Morton, Divine, George Kirby<\/strong><strong>,<\/strong> <strong>John Considine, Dirk Blocker, Gailard Sartain, Allan F. Nicholls <\/strong>and <strong>Albert Hall<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: None.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As Walter Hill said about <em>Streets of Fire<\/em>&#8230; it takes place in another time and another place.\u00a0 <em>Trouble in Mind<\/em> is set in Rain City.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">John Hawkins, <em>Hawk<\/em> to his friends, has just been released from prison.\u00a0 Hawk did a stretch for murder.\u00a0 He was a cop who killed a gangster.\u00a0 It cost Hawk his job and eight years of his life.\u00a0 But he&#8217;d do it again to protect the ones he loves.\u00a0 These days he hangs out at Wanda&#8217;s Cafe as he decides what&#8217;s next.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Coop and Georgia are a young couple with a baby named Spike.\u00a0 They hoped Rain City would provide them a fresh start.\u00a0 Money is tight despite Georgia getting a job as a waitress at Wanda&#8217;s Cafe.\u00a0 So Coop starts taking jobs for a crook named Solo.\u00a0 As the money starts coming in Coop begins to believe he&#8217;s cut out to be a gangster.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hawk is attracted to Georgia.\u00a0 He knows where the path Coop is taking leads. He wants to save Georgia from the heartache.\u00a0 Georgia is torn.\u00a0 She loved the man her husband used to be.\u00a0 She&#8217;s got to do what&#8217;s best for her and her child.<\/p>\n<p>Coop and Solo&#8217;s crimes have put them at odds with another gangster.\u00a0 Hawk and Coop are also headed for a showdown.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Roger Ebert wrote <em>Trouble in Mind<\/em> &#8220;is a movie that takes place within our memories of the movies.&#8221;\u00a0 After seeing the film, you&#8217;ll understand what he meant.\u00a0 It has all the tropes you&#8217;d expect in a neo-noir but with flourishes that work in &#8220;another time, another place&#8221; or dream settings.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Trouble in Mind <\/strong><\/em>(1985) rates 3 of 5 stars.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_c.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z102225zview_troubleinmind2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"348\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trouble in Mind (1985) Director:\u00a0 Alan Rudolph Screenplay: Alan Rudolph Stars: Kris Kristofferson, Keith Carradine, Lori Singer, Genevi\u00e8ve Bujold, Joe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40314,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40313\/revisions\/40314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}