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The Dark Backward is a american film of genre Fantastic directed by Adam Rifkin released in USA on 26 july 1991 with Judd Nelson
The Dark Backward (1991)
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Add to a movie listThe Dark Backward is a 1991 satirical comedy film directed and written by Adam Rifkin.
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Marty Malt (Judd Nelson) is an unhappy garbage man who moonlights as an atrociously unfunny standup comic. He lives in a dark, grimy, garbage-strewn urban netherworld, where a company named Blump's apparently owns everything. His best friend and fellow trash collector, Gus (Bill Paxton), is the only one who laughs at his jokes, and his sincerity is questionable. The obnoxiously exuberant Gus plays an accordion, which he always carries with him. Marty is seeing Rosarita (Lara Flynn Boyle), a waitress, but she doesn't seem too interested in him.Actors
Judd Nelson
(Marty Malt)
Bill Paxton
(Gus)
Wayne Newton
(Jackie Chrome)
Lara Flynn Boyle
(Rosarita)
James Caan
(Dr. Scurvy)
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