The Dark Backward
Summary:
Writer/director Adam Rifkin's The Dark Backward is set in a dark, grimy, garbage-strewn urban netherworld, where a company named "Blump's" apparently owns everything. Marty Malt (Judd Nelson of The Breakfast Club) is an unhappy garbageman who moonlights as an atrociously unfunny standup comic. His best friend and fellow trash collector, Gus (Bill Paxton), is the only... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Judd Nelson - (Marty Malt)
Bill Paxton - (Gus)
Wayne Newton - (Jackie Chrome)
Lara Flynn Boyle - (Rosarita)
Rob Lowe - (Dirk Delta)
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Review:
The Dark Backward may be most aggressively unpleasant commercial feature ever made. It clearly represents some kind of horrific apotheosis of the "bad-is-good" aesthetic. Judd Nelson, covered in a sheen of sweat, his hair slicked down with grease, plays the lead role as Marty Malt, a weak-willed, woefully inept standup comic who unexplaina... Continue >>
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