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Heart of Midnight is a american film of genre Drama directed by Matthew Chapman released in USA on 3 march 1989 with Jennifer Jason Leigh
Heart of Midnight (1988)
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Add to a movie listHeart of Midnight is a 1988 American thriller film written and directed by Matthew Chapman and starring Jennifer Jason Leigh. The story follows a young woman with a troubled past who has a hard time dealing with the reality of her new surroundings. The original soundtrack for the film was composed by Yanni and it marks one of his first major recordings.
Synopsis
Carol (Jennifer Jason Leigh) is a young woman recovering from her recent, although not the first, nervous breakdown. She has just inherited Midnight, an abandoned nightclub in a seedy neighbourhood that was previously owned by her recently deceased mysterious uncle Fletcher (Sam Schacht). She moves out of the home of her trashy mother Betty (Brenda Vaccaro) and into the nightclub and starts renovating it in hopes of re-opening it one day soon. However, she quickly finds out that things are not as they seem as she discovers a secret section of the club that was being used as a brothel catering to clients with sexually perverted tendencies.Actors
Jennifer Jason Leigh
(Carol)
Peter Coyote
(Sharpe/Larry)
Brenda Vaccaro
(Betty)
Steve Buscemi
(Eddy)
Frank Stallone
(Ledray)
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