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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Lions Gate
EAN: 0012236125747
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: Lions Gate
Manufacturer: Lions Gate
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Lions Gate
Region Code: 1
Release Date: October 22, 2002
Running Time: 94 minutes
Sales Rank: 24066
Studio: Lions Gate
Theatrical Release Date: September 29, 1989
Editorial Review:
Description:
Mickey Rourke stars as the main character John Sedley in this high-energy action movie, directed by Walter Hill ('Red Heat,' '48HRS.'). Johnny was born severely deformed and makes his living as a small time criminal. During a robbery, he and his best friend Mikey are double-crossed by their partners. Mikey is shot and killed, and John takes the rap for the robbery and goes to prison. There, thanks to a sympathetic surgeon, he receives a new face. Finally John is released on parole. Seeking revenge, he makes a daring and desperate gamble to get even in this electrifying tale of intrigue and betrayal.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Terrific thriller, lousy DVD
Walter Hill's 1989 morality play sees Mickey Rourke gives one of his very best performances as a deformed crook given plastic surgery and a second chance for either redemption or revenge. Given short shrift from most critics and making little impact at the box-office, Johnny Handsome is a minor classic waiting to be discovered, a pulp noir thriller in the RKO mold lifted into another class by the conviction of the cast and direction.
Hill's direction is a refreshing return to the form ... Read More
Rating: - LET'S HAVE A WIDESCREEN RELEASE ALREADY!
This is a great movie that deserves a better DVD release - audio/video remastered and, please, PLEASE! Get it right and make it widescreen this time around.
Rating:  - Great movie, great actors
This movie really holds up even today. Mickey Rourke does a spectacular job as the disfigured con who gets a new face. He has the tenderness underneath the tough exterior, always a winning combination for me.
Ellen Barkin is great too as the tough moll gal. Lots of action and lots of drama. Highly recommended
Rating: - One of Mickery Rouke's best performances!
This movie is profound in it's ability to show how background and circumstances can come back to haunt someone and how difficult it is to change even when given all the best options in the world. Every actor in the movie is good and Rourke is exceptional.
Rating: - First Rate Pulp Fiction
I remember seeing this film during it's initial run at a decrepit old movie palace in the Bronx with probably a handful of people in the audience. It's a shame because this unheralded gem deserved better. Before Quentin Tarantino there was Walter Hill as a purveyor of adrenaline charged pulp entertainment. Everything here clicks on all cylinders. Hill masterfully directs this intricately plotted story of a disfigured man given a second chance in life torn between going straight and settling down ... Read More
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