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www.rollingstone.com - : Jim Thompson wrote twenty-nine lean and lowdown novels before his death in 1977. Two of these memorably warped potboilers -- The Getaway and ''The Killer Inside Me'' -- have been turned into disappointingly conventional Hollywood movies. This year we'll see three more film adaptations of Thompson's work -- The Grifters, The Kill-Off and, first on deck, ''After Dark, My Sweet,'' which was published in 1955 but updated to the present for the screen. Directed by James Foley (''At Close Range''), who co-wrote the script with producer Robert Redlin, the film is a hot-wired crime thriller that captures Thompson's flair for hard action, malicious wit and fevered eroticism. more...
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