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Danny Huston's 1988 Directorial Debut Mr. North is a Very Nice Motion Picture. Pleasant as Well!

My patron-funded exploration of Virginia Madsen hits another low-key charmer, the Danny Huston-directed 1988 comedy-drama Mr. North, starring Madsen, Robert Mitchum, Lauren Bacall, David Warner, Harry Dean Stanton and Anthony Edwards.

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The Terrific 1987 Baseball Comedy-Drama Long Gone Is So Much More Than Just a Minor Footnote in the Bull Durham Story

My patron-funded exploration of Virginia Madsen’s career hits another winner in 1987’s Long Gone, a terrific and perfectly cast HBO movie that’s like Bull Durham but set in the 1950s with Madsen in the Sue Sarandon role, William Peterson in the Kevin Costner part and a baby-faced Dermot Mulroney in the Tim Robbins part.

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