Joanne Klein Movies
Ann Coppel directed this Seattle-based low-budget dark comedy, adapted by executive producer-actor Ted Sod from his own AIDS-themed play Satan and Simon DeSoto. Junior-high art instructor Simon (Sod) gets a 1995 HIV-positive diagnosis. Simon panics, since he had a friend who had suffered from AIDS before choosing to commit suicide. Satan (William Salyers) appears and offers to rid Simon of HIV. In return, Simon is forced to become a racist, homophobic, anti-Semitic stand-up comic, while allowing his former lover Carl (Dan Savage) to die instead. Shown at the 1998 Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras Film Festival. ~ Bhob Stewart, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Ted Sod, Joanne Klein, (more)
- 1992
In this drama, based on a true story, a New York educator has an affair with a manipulative peer and subsequently finds himself implicated in his wife's murder. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Joe Penny, Jenny Robertson, (more)
- 1991
In this touching drama, based on a magazine article by Mary Stuart, a wealthy socialite finds herself impoverished following her husband's sudden death. Across the street from her tiny apartment, there lives a bag lady in large cardboard box. The women, realizing that they have more in common than they thought, become good friends. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- 1985
- R
The time is The Future: the place is Rain City, formerly Seattle. The city is a police state, while the citizens have adopted the manner and dress of 1940s gangsters. Recently released from prison, ex-cop Kris Kristofferson tries to touch base with his ex-girlfriend Genevieve Bujold, who runs a 1950s-style cafe. Hoping to make up for past sins, thereby redeeming himself in Bujold's eyes, Kristofferson endeavors to save innocent, newly arrived couple Keith Carradine and Lori Singer from the evil designs of crooked Joe Morton. Trouble in Mind strives mightily for a film noir ambience, right down to the presence of a sinister, Greenstreetesque "fat man," played in male drag (for a change) by Divine. The title tune for Trouble in Mind is sung over the credits by Marianne Faithful. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Kris Kristofferson, Keith Carradine, (more)
