Debra Winger!

haha i wish i could vote ; ) she's cool

I get her mixed up with Sean Young. And Kelly McGillis? : /

Wow she was in a lot of movies, I don't like.

Oh yeah.

I've seen only 6 (counting her stunt cameo in Made in Heaven; and I missed Urban Cowboy). She's best in Terms of Endearment and Black Widow, of those.

she's really fine in The Sheltering Sky doing a Judy Davis imitation.

Shadowlands

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about ten years ago or so I used to see her at the playground w/her kids. one good-lookin' mom.

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I missed this thread! I woulda voted for Mike's Murder.

Rosanna Arquette made a documentary called Searching For Debra Winger which basically about famous actress claiming they can't get good roles. As much as I'm sure they've all dealt with some shit, I dunno if I need 90 minutes of women who HAVE gotten million dollar paychecks complaining about the industry. I believe Arquette found her doing regional theatre or something, possibly with Rosanna Arquette.

the problem with hollywood isn't that rosanna arquette hasn't gotten better roles, but that the male version of rosanna arquette has. though its possible aidan quinn would beg to differ.

have you read Kael's Mike's Murder review? I rented it about 12 years ago on her recommendation (said she was Antonioni-worthy or something). I remember it as pretty good overall but underwritten: she's thrust into the plot too quickly, without motivation.

Yeah the review is what got me to rent it. I didn't find it underwritten, thought Winger sold it.

You know who might have made it seem underwritten? Rosanna Arquette.

I love how Winger's imdb page is topped with pictures of her canoodling with Arliss Howard. No way to run a career.

Her exchanges with uber-creepy Paul Winfield were great.

speaking of creepy: Arliss Howard sported some rank mullets.

Arliss Howard's scenes in the Danny Aiello vehicle Ruby are outstanding, but its really not worth the effort to find it.

Kael's also very high on Everybody's Fine, but it's written by, um, Arthur Miller.

* Everybody Wins, of course.

Scott Seward loves that movie (brought it up on some thread where Tough Guys Don't Dance was being discussed), I've been meaning to try and find it.

Evidently Winger is in a new Jonathan Demme comedy! Man that would have been promising twenty years ago.

OK now I want to watch it again

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaaLjV2dW-g

Finally saw Mike's Murder, which was worth a look for the gay/bi/drug demimonde, but I found Winger's role kinda thankless. Paul Winfield steals their scene together in his caftan. Also the guy who plays Mike's sleazy co-dealer is kinda terrible.

You know the original (unseen) James Bridges cut unfolded in reverse chronology?

The guy who plays Mike isn't great either.

Came across this online — I'd never heard of it before — and Morbs' description is otm... interesting in places but no lost classic. And it absolutely feels like a movie that has been through some recuts. Found this great piece about it: The Violence Is Still There: Reinvestigating Mike's Murder

The only critic quite high on Mike's Murder was Kael, but, as Morbs said, as a peek into the pre-AIDS/post-Eagles-era L.A. drug demimonde it's quite fascinating. As for Winger, I think she's a vivid passive character. I wrote a long piece about it a decade ago.

Thanks, that's great.

The most conventional part of Mike’s Murder shows Pete on the run from the guys as he descends into cocaine psychosis; Larson’s uneven work — frightening one moment, bug-eyed like a Muppet the next — doesn’t help.