The Blackout (1997 film)

The Blackout
Directed byAbel Ferrara
Written byAbel Ferrara
Marla Hanson
Chris Zois
Produced byEdward R. Pressman
Clayton Townsend
StarringMatthew Modine
CinematographyKen Kelsch
Edited byAnthony Redman
Music byJoe Delia
Production
company
Distributed byDestination Films
Release date
  • June 11, 1997 (1997-06-11)
Running time
98 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$110.000[1]

The Blackout is a 1997 American drama film directed by Abel Ferrara and starring Matthew Modine. It was screened out of competition at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival.[2]

Plot

Matty is an actor and popular film star who is tired of Hollywood life and moves to Miami, where he makes a marriage proposal to his French girlfriend Annie. She is not ready to marry him, and it is revealed that she had an abortion. Depressed because he lost his baby (though it was he who initially asked for abortion), Matty, together with his friend Micky, go out for a wild night. At a nightclub, they meet a young waitress also named Annie and at the end of the night Matty passes out.

A year and a half later, Matty lives in New York, leads a clean life visiting AA meetings and has a relationship with an attractive model named Susan. He is still obsessed with his former girlfriend Annie, and about the mysterious missing part of his night back in Miami. Matty travels back to Miami to look up some old friends as well as try to find Annie 1, who vanished without a trace. Matty eventually learns that some secrets from his past are best left unrevealed.

Cast

References

  1. ^ "The Blackout (1997) - JPBox-Office".
  2. ^ "Festival de Cannes: The Blackout". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-09-27.
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