Trouble In Mind Details

Still troubled about 'Trouble in Mind'

Saw it when it came out in the early eighties. Watched it thrice since.

Kris Kristoffersons' alcoholic cop is still riveting as he struggles to cope with his past. Whatever that is ! The whole thing seems to be about desire and the what can happen when you make it the most important thing in your life.

Superb performance from the late Divine, not in drag, as Hilly Blue the head gangster. The way peoples appearance changes throughout the film is mesmerising. Why does Carrdines hair get progressively more duran duran / Why does the black crook use meditation? Why does he kill himself in a clock tower? This film is thoroughly recommended as twenty years on this reviewer still does not understand it. But I will watch it again very soon, and so should you.

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[Highly rated reviewer]

Erm...

Totally bizarre Lynchean-style film noir with a mixed bag of performances. On the plus side, we have Keith Carradine as Coop, the country bumpkin who morphs into a sleazy Elvis look-a-like (for no apparent reason), Lori Singer as Georgia, his awesomely naive wife and Divine (sans make-up) as screw-loose villain, Hilly Blue. On the negative side, we have Kris Kristofferson and Genevieve Bujold, who (unfortunately) play the lead characters and do it whilst sleep-walking. Still, there are enough quirks to keep us amused (or bemused), like the 'death by drowning' (classic) and the OTT shoot 'em up at the end. One for David Lynch and John Waters fans only, mind.