In his 1984 film STRANGERS KISS, director Matthew Chapman paid tribute to Stanley Kubrick by casting Peter Coyote as a coolly manipulative director making a low-budget film patterned after Kubrick's own ultra-cheap debut, KILLER'S KISS. Filmed in 1987, HEART OF MIDNIGHT reunites Chapman,
Coyote, and the spirit of Kubrick, this time in an atmospheric homage to Kubrick's Stephen King adaptation THE SHINING. Jennifer Jason Leigh plays Carol Rivers, who, while recovering from a nervous breakdown, reopens the rundown Charleston, South Carolina, nightclub she has inherited from her
uncle. Moving into an apartment over the club, Carol is soon afflicted with bizarre halluc...
Released:
1989
Rated:
R
Length:
105 mins