The Hot Spot – Spiel mit dem Feuer (1990)

The Hot Spot – Spiel mit dem Feuer: Directed by Dennis Hopper. With Don Johnson, Virginia Madsen, Jennifer Connelly, Charles Martin Smith. Upon arriving to a small town, a drifter quickly gets into trouble with the local authorities – and the local women – after he robs a bank.

“When the drifter Harry Madox (Don Johnson) reaches a small town in Texas, he gets a job as used car salesman with the dealer George Harshaw (Jerry Hardin) and settles down in a hotel room. During a fire, Harry observes that the local bank is left empty and open without any security. Sooner he plots a scheme to rob the bank, provoking a fire in his room to distract the employees. When Harry meets Georgeu0026#39;s wife Dolly Harshaw (Virginia Madsen), the easy woman teases him and they have sex. Harry becomes the prime suspect of the bank heist and is arrested, but Dolly provided the necessary alibi to release him and blackmails him to have a love affair with her. However, Harry falls in love for Gloria Harper (Jennifer Connelly), who works as accountant in the dealership. He discovers that Gloria is blackmailed by the despicable Frank Sutton (William Sadler) and he decides to press Sutton. But in the end, Dolly gets what she wants. u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eu0026quot;Hot Spotu0026quot; is an unknown gem and one of the most amoral stories of the cinema history. With the exception of the sweet Gloria Harper and the cuckold George Harshow, the other three lead characters have no moral or ethical codes and Virginia Madsen performs one of the most despicable and Machiavellian femme fatale of the cinema. This masterpiece of Dennis Hopper is certainly the best work of Don Johnson and the soundtrack is stunning and among my favorites. I have just watched u0026quot;Hot Spotu0026quot; maybe for the sixth or seventh time and this film-noir has not aged. My vote is nine.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eTitle (Brazil): u0026quot;Hot Spot – Um Local Muito Quenteu0026quot; (u0026quot;Hot Spot – A Very Hot Spotu0026quot;)u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eNote: On 29 October 2011, I saw this film again.”