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Mala Noche
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Director:
Writers:
Walt Curtis (story)
Gus Van Sant (writer)
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Release Date:
19 June 1987 (West Germany) more
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Plot:
A story of amour fou. Walt is madly in love/lust with a young illegal Mexican immigrant. "I wanna show this Mexican kid that I'm gay for him"... more | add synopsis
Awards:
2 wins more
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It's Gus Van Sant's first and it's a worth watching little feature film… more (13 total)

Cast

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Tim Streeter ... Walt Curtis
Doug Cooeyate ... Johnny
Ray Monge ... Roberto Pepper
Nyla McCarthy ... Betty
Sam Downey ... Hotel Clerk
Robert Lee Pitchlynn ... Drunk Man (as Bob Pitchlynn)
Eric Pedersen ... Policeman
Marty Christiansen ... Barfriend
George Conner ... Wino (as Bad George Connor)
Don Chambers ... Himself
Walt Curtis ... George
Kenny Presler ... Street Hustler
Conde Benavides ... Arcade Amigo
Cristo Stoyos ... Greek Singer
Matt Cooeyate ... Boxcar Amigo
Marsellus Allen
Anne Buffen
Dieter Reshhe ... Dieter
Frank Euward ... Frank
Pat Switzler
Steve Young
Fred Portra
G.H. Mackie
John Benneth
Judy Anne Leach
Katherine Serlo
Pablo Telles
Maruja Muñoz ... Lady with Knife
Chris Monlux
Steve Foster
Havier Valle
Steven Hulse
Denny Chericone
Arturo Torres ... Voice of Johnny (voice)
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Directed by
Gus Van Sant 
 
Writing credits
(in alphabetical order)
Walt Curtis  story
Gus Van Sant  writer

Produced by
Gus Van Sant .... producer
 
Original Music by
Creighton Lindsay 
 
Cinematography by
John J. Campbell  (as John Campbell)
 
Film Editing by
Gus Van Sant 
 
Sound Department
Pat Baum .... sound
 
Camera and Electrical Department
Eric Alan Edwards .... additional photographer
 
Editorial Department
Dave Ling .... color timer
 
Other crew
Steve Foster .... production coordinator
Chris Monlux .... production associate
David Thorson .... production coordinator
Jack Yost .... production associate
 
Thanks
Sunny Jim .... dedicatee
 

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Also Known As:
Bad Night
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78 min
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It's Gus Van Sant's first and it's a worth watching little feature film…, 20 September 2009
Author: eric_xoloitzcuintle from Mexico City

Some time ago, like two years ago to be more or less exact, I was into the films of director Gus Van Sant. I got to see a few of his, not counting his latest film Milk that was released just last year, 12 feature films. I got to see Drugstore Cowboy, Finding Forrester, Elephant (my favourite of him so far), Last Days and Paranoid Park. As I often remark in my IMDb comments, I'm one of the fans of the truly amazing Criterion Collection and two Van Sant films are part of the collection, two of his first ones: Mala Noche (his very first one, released in 1985) and My Own Private Idaho (released back in 1991, two years after the release of Drugstore Cowboy). It was about time to finally check out the Criterion Van Sant titles and while not on the Criterion DVD today I saw Mala Noche (and I will renting as soon as I can the Criterion DVD of My Own Private Idaho, which is one of the most acclaimed films of Van Sant. And by the way, if you go to the website of Criterion you will find the lists of favourite Criterion titles of people like Richard Linklater, John Lurie,. "Idaho"is part of the list of Steve Buscemi, James Franco, so is more acclaim, more for me to finally check out that 1991 film).

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