mortal thoughts

Director: alan rudolph

Actor: demi moore,glenne headly,bruce willis,john pankow

Data Published: Fri Apr 19 1991

Genres: Mystery,Thriller

Key Words: neo noir,detective,friend,best friend,murder

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102469/

WIKI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortal_Thoughts

Description: Mortal Thoughts is a movie starring Demi Moore, Glenne Headly, and Bruce Willis. Two detectives interrogate a hairdresser on two homicides she may or may not have been involved in.

Plot: Cynthia Kellogg is interrogated by two investigators at the police station. The deposition given by Cynthia is supported by detailed flashbacks. The interrogation arouses particular suspicion about whether Cynthia's own husband could have informed the police about the incident and anything which his wife could have confided in him. In flashback, Cynthia and Joyce are best friends who work together. Joyce's husband, Jimmy, is abusive, both physically and emotionally, and she expresses a desire to kill him several times. One night, Cynthia accompanies Joyce, and Jimmy, to a festival. When Jimmy becomes drunk and picks a fight with Joyce, he heads back to their van to go home. Cynthia follows him to make sure he gets to the van and to take the keys from him, to let him sleep it off in the van. Jimmy makes an advance to Cynthia, who spurns him and leaves him at the van. Later Jimmy is found dead in the van, with his throat cut. After Cynthia's husband, Artie, is found shot to death, she comes forward to the police to tell her version of events. She also tells the police she thinks Joyce killed Artie to keep him from going to the police about what Cynthia told him. Meanwhile, she didn't think Joyce was capable of killing him, so she didn't take her threats seriously. The police release Cynthia, and bring Joyce in for interrogation at the same time. In a final flashback, we see what happened with Jimmy and Cynthia at the festival. He attempted to rape her when she helped him into the van. She grabbed a box cutter and sliced his throat to get away from him. Cynthia and Joyce initially head for the hospital, but the fear that Cynthia will go to jail. Joyce's belief that Jimmy would kill both of them if he recovers convinces Joyce to turn around. They take the van back to the festival and leave him there to bleed out as if the attack involved someone else. Cynthia is then seen heading back to the police station to make a confession.