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  • 2007
  • Not Rated
  • Gus Van Sant
  • 1 h 18 m
  • 2007
  • Not Rated
  • Gus Van Sant
  • 1 h 18 m

Summary A key work in American independent moviemaking, Gus Van Sant's first feature tells a story from Portland's grubby skid row, about Walt, a thirty-something convenience-store manager madly in love with an illegal teenage Mexican immigrant named Johnny. (IFC)

Directed By: Gus Van Sant

Written By: Walt Curtis, Gus Van Sant

  • 2007
  • Not Rated
  • Gus Van Sant
  • 1 h 18 m
  • 2007
  • Not Rated
  • Gus Van Sant
  • 1 h 18 m

Mala Noche

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User Score Generally Favorable Based on 5 User Ratings
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Summary A key work in American independent moviemaking, Gus Van Sant's first feature tells a story from Portland's grubby skid row, about Walt, a thirty-something convenience-store manager madly in love with an illegal teenage Mexican immigrant named Johnny. (IFC)

Directed By: Gus Van Sant

Written By: Walt Curtis, Gus Van Sant

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100
This 1985 film's absolute freedom from cliches is genuinely refreshing; looking at it again after Van Sant's subsequent "Drugstore Cowboy," I found it every bit as good and in some ways even more impressive than the later film. It shouldn't be missed.
By Jonathan Rosenbaum FULL REVIEW
90
Based on an autobiographical novella by Portland "street poet" Walt Curtis, Mala Noche (1985) was the 33-year-old Van Sant's debut feature. Shot on 16mm for $25,000, it was the first of his bittersweet odes to tender outcasts and remains the simplest and least burdened.
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This is the first, smallest, and most essential planet in the Van Sant solar system. The seediness of "Drugstore Cowboy " started here. So did the one-way crushes in "My Own Private Idaho " and the gorgeously epic longueurs of "Last Days. "
By Wesley Morris FULL REVIEW

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User Score
Generally Favorable Based on 5 User Ratings
6.6
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2 Ratings
40% Mixed
2 Ratings
20% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 5 User Ratings
6.6
40% Positive
2 Ratings
40% Mixed
2 Ratings
20% Negative
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Release Date Jun 1, 2007
Duration 1 h 18 m
Rating Not Rated
Genres
Tagline If you fuck with the bull, you get the horn
Website http://www.mk2.com/malanoche/
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Awards

Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Torino International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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