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Amateur

Accountancy, Murder, Amnesia, Torture, Ecstasy, Understanding, Redemption

1994 · 1h 45m

Directed by Hal Hartley

6.2

TMDB audience score
114 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

A man wakes up in an alley, bleeding and with no memory of who he is. He stumbles into a coffee shop and is befriended by a charitable ex-nun who is failing in her attempts to write marketable pornography.

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Cast

  • Isabelle Huppert
    Isabelle

  • Martin Donovan
    Thomas Ludens

  • Elina Löwensohn
    Sofia Ludens

  • Damian Young
    Edward, Jaque's Accountant

  • Chuck Montgomery
    Jan, Jaque's Goon

  • Dave Simonds
    Kurt, Jaque's Goon

  • Pamela Stewart
    Officer Patsy Melville

  • Erica Gimpel
    Irate Woman

  • Jan Leslie Harding
    Waitress

  • Terry Alexander
    Frank, the Cook

  • Holt McCallany
    Usher

  • Hugh Palmer
    Warren

  • Michael Imperioli
    Doorman at Club

  • Angel Caban
    Detective

  • Emmanuel Xuereb
    Bartender

  • Lennie Loftin
    Taxi Driver

  • David Greenspan
    George , the Pornographer

  • Adria Tennor
    Kid reading 'The Odyssey'