Mortal Thoughts (1991) on Netflix
Two detectives question hairdresser Cynthia Kellogg about two deaths. In flashbacks she describes her friend Joyce, Joyce's abusive husband Jimmy, and the night of the Feast of Saint Rocco.
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Plot summary
Cynthia Kellogg is a hairdresser and mother in Bayonne, New Jersey, working at a salon run by her closest friend, Joyce Urbanski. Joyce is married to Jimmy Urbanski, a violent drug addict who beats her and steals from her. At a police station, Detectives John Woods and Linda Nealon question Cynthia about the homicides they are investigating, and her account comes out in flashbacks. One night she joins Joyce and Jimmy at the Feast of Saint Rocco festival, where Jimmy drinks, picks a fight with Joyce and heads back to the van. Cynthia goes after him and keeps the keys, leaving him asleep inside. The two women go back to the van later and find Jimmy dead, his throat cut.
Cast
- Crystal Fieldas Jeanette Marino
- Marc Baronas Usher
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Mortal Thoughts (1991)
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- When the financiers of Mortal Thoughts threatened to cancel it during the first week of shooting, star and co-producer Demi Moore offered to pay the production's overtime herself, after original director Claude Kerven was fired.
- Mortal Thoughts' original director, Claude Kerven, who co-wrote the screenplay, was fired after only one week of shooting, and the producers also fired the cinematographer and co-star Peter Gallagher.
- While Mortal Thoughts' planned December 1990 release sat on hold, its production company Polar Entertainment had filed a lawsuit against New Visions Pictures for breach of contract over the replacement of director Claude Kerven, though whether that caused the delay is unknown.
