Curiosity Kills (TV)
1990 · Movie · 86 min. · United States
The movie opens with a violent scene (with cheap, unconvincing special effects) in which all of the police guards of a drug informant are shot to death, only to have the informant himself kill the hit-man. The scene then shifts to a run-down, warehouse-looking apartment building in a bad neighborhood in which Howell, a starving-artist photographer, works as the janitor for sleazy, quick-buck absentee landlord Guilfoyle, who appears briefly in the movie, wearing a leather jacket and driving a motorcycle. Howell's neighbor, Chong, is a starving-artist sculptor. Although the film never explains it, he has a girlfriend (Cox) who is a successful model and wants him to switch to commercial photography and move with her to a fancy condo in Malibu. The very next day after an old, failed, drunk painter who is another friend and neighbor of Howell's is found dead in his apartment in a tub full of blood, a vacuous-looking "actor" (Fahey) arrives to take the place...
Direction Colin Bucksey
Cast C. Thomas Howell · Rae Dawn Chong · Courteney Cox · Paul Guilfoyle · Lawrence Dobkin · Scott Lincoln · Richard Forojny · Jeff Fahey · Louis Riviera · Will Leskin
Soundtrack Jan Hammer
Screenplay Joe Batteer · John Rice
Cinematography Bojan Bazelli
Original title Curiosity Kills (TV)
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Not rated (FilmAffinity)
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