Howard Spence has seen better days. Once a big Western movie star, he now drowns his disgust for his selfish and failed life with alcohol, drugs and young women. If he were to die now, nobody would shed a tear over him, that's the sad truth. Until one day Howard learns that he might have a child somewhere out there...
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Contemplative, prestige, grave and earnest.
- contemplativerelentless
- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
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Cast
- Sam ShepardHoward
- Jessica LangeDoreen
- Tim RothSutter
- Gabriel MannEarl
- Sarah PolleySky
- Fairuza BalkAmber
- Eva Marie SaintHoward's Mother
- James Roday Rodriguez1st AD
- Jeffrey Vincent Parise2nd AD
- Majandra Delfino1st Girl
Crew
- Wim WendersDirector
- Sam ShepardWriter
- Wim WendersWriter
- Franz LustigDirector of Photography
- T Bone BurnettOriginal Music Composer
- Oli WeissEditor
- Peter PrzygoddaEditor
- Karsten BrünigProducer
- In-Ah LeeProducer
- Peter SchwartzkopffProducer
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Pairings
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