Tough Guys Don't Dance
Tough Guys Don't Dance is a 1987 crime mystery comedy-drama film written and directed by Norman Mailer based on his novel of the same name. It is a murder mystery/film noir piece. It was screened out of competition at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival.
Plot
A month after his party-obsessed wife Patty Lareine (Debra Sandlund) left him, Tim Madden (Ryan O'Neal) is visited by his father Dougy (Lawrence Tierney), who tells Tim that he has stopped chemotherapy because "tough guys don't dance." Tim reveals to his father that there are parts of two murdered bodies in his cellar, and that while he doesn't think that he murdered them, he has been suffering from blackouts and hallucinations.