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The Hot Spot

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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. From TMDB

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  • Jenifer Marie Frost (NO DMs) 🇦🇪🇷🇺 @sekhmetnakt.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 28, 2026

    She was amazing in the movie The Hot Spot with Don Johnson and Jennifer Connelly

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  • Mattch @mooter55.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 25, 2025

    #StrictlyInstrumental #MusicChallenge Day 26. - Soundtrack Tuesday The Hot Spot ‘End Credits’ All musicians listed on the cover played on this cut. Movie by Dennis Hopper I will attach his liner notes below, they’re a hoot! youtu.be/LhuU_vF3SJ0?...

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  • Have You Seen This? @haveyouseen.usBluesky · Aug 11, 2024

    Watching The Hot Spot on Tubi and this is the horniest movie I’ve seen in a minute. It’s refreshing!

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  • Ryan Ziolko 🚀 @mediumfidelity.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 9, 2025

    After we cut the alarm circuits and distracted the guards with low shirts, the plan came together for #Junesploitation 2025 Day 8: Heists! #NowWatching The Hot Spot (1990) for the first time.

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  • Music Box Theatre @musicboxtheatre.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 5, 2025

    Sweaty 35MM Film Frames from Dennis Hopper’s THE HOT SPOT starring Don Johnson & Jennifer Connelly Playing this Saturday September at 9pm, introduced by Eddie Muller as part of NOIR CITY: CHICAGO! Get Tickets Now: musicboxtheatre.com/films-and-ev...

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  • Grand Illusion Cinema @grandillusioncinema.orgBluesky · Aug 18, 2025

    Escape the city heat of Seattle, and enter the sweltering streets of small town Landers, Texas for a 35th anniversary screening of Dennis Hopper's underrated, sweaty neo-noir, THE HOT SPOT. August 26th at our NW Film Forum popup. grandillusioncinema.org/film/the-hot...

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  • Stephen LN @riffsandmeaning.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 15, 2025

    My book on director Dennis Hopper’s soundtracks for his films Easy Rider, The Last Movie, Out of the Blue, Colors, and The Hot Spot is out in paperback today! Mikey Madison sums up the contents best. www.routledge.com/Music-and-So...

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  • Peter Albrechtsen @lydrummet.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 22, 2025

    Nye film i samlingen. Endless Night har musik af min favoritfilmkomponist, Bernard Herrmann. The Hot Spot har lyddesign af en af mine favoritlyddesignere, Gary Rydstrom. Og The Swimmer har jeg snart ikke tal på, hvor mange gange jeg har fået anbefalet – men aldrig set. Hurra for fysiske medier ❤️📀

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  • The Rhiannonator 📼 @nannonharry.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 1, 2026

    film month in review: May total watched: 25 rewatches: 10 cinema visits: 1 favourite discovery: THE HOT SPOT

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  • David BASTARDspan @davidbix.comBluesky · Dec 19, 2024

    Ah yes, the soundtrack. Definitely what 1990 feature film "The Hot Spot" is best known for.

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  • Kate Hagen's House of Horrors 👻 @thathagengrrl.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 17, 2026

    Just saw a new movie called HOT SPOT when THE HOT SPOT already exists, as does OBSESSION '76, as does DEEP WATER '22 and those are just movies from THIS YEAR...begging you guys to have maybe even just like 1% of trust in audiences to digest a new, actually original title for something, idk.

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  • Scott Nye @railoftomorrow.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 5, 2025

    Chicago - THE HOT SPOT. Reeeeeeeeally fun movie.

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  • Andrew Pope @andrewpope.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 18, 2024

    The Hot Spot (90). Dennis Hopper’s hot, dusty neo-noir is a key film in the film soleil cannon; those late 80s to mid 90s films that put noir tropes and sexual desperation in dead-end towns where everyone drank to forget. From Red Rock West to U-Turn, no-one escaped the sun; this is a great example.

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  • Remy Dean 🎃 @remydean.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 15, 2026

    #RemyReviews 'The Hot Spot' (1990) "long scenes measured with sparse dialogue immerse us in a meticulously constructed milieu" Dennis Hopper's sexy'n’cynical swelter-noir looks gorgous @filmsradiance.bsky.social 4K UHD & #Bluray my #movie #review @framerated.co.uk 🔥 medium.com/framerated/t...

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  • Jack Kost @jackkost.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 26, 2025

    On this day in movie history: The Hot Spot directed by Dennis Hopper released October 26, 1990. Cast: Don Johnson, Virginia Madsen, Jennifer Connelly, Charles Martin Smith, William Sadler, Jerry Hardin, Barry Corbin, Leon Rippy, Jack Nance, Virgil Frye, John Hawker, Margaret Bowman. #Noir

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  • Hoots @cinemahoots.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 8, 2025

    #Cinema #Movie #Blues #Music #HotSpot #Hoots " The HotSpot " (1990) directed by Dennis Hopper, written by Charles Williams, Nona Tyson www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdCF...

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  • metacritic @metacritic.comBluesky · May 7, 2024

    The Hot Spot [55] is free on Tubi/PlutoTV: www.metacritic.com/movie/the-ho... #11pmspecial "A crazy, intentionally ludicrous movie that's a lot of film-noir fun." - Desson Thomson, Washington Post

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  • Caustic Cover Critic @causticcovercritic.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 14, 2023

    Unless it's THE HOT SPOT, "a film by Dennis Hopper" is never a good thing.

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  • Ultra HD Blu-ray 💿 @ultrahdbluray.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 26, 2026

    Also recommended: the original soundtrack of The Hot Spot, an unlikely collaboration between John Lee Hooker and Miles Davis that is just perfect for the movie and for this weather. amazon.com/Hot-Spot-Ori...

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  • Ultra HD Blu-ray 💿 @ultrahdbluray.bsky.socialBluesky · May 15, 2026

    At last! I've been waiting for this since forever. A very underrated film, in my view. 'The Hot Spot' gets a 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray release from @filmsradiance.bsky.social: www.amazon.co.uk/Spot-Blu-ray...

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  • Grand Illusion Cinema @grandillusioncinema.orgBluesky · Aug 25, 2025

    Dennis Hopper's underrated, sweaty neo-noir, THE HOT SPOT, screens tomorrow at NW Film Forum, presented by us! “Noir is typically shadowy, but THE HOT SPOT is all sunlight, making everything feel even more exposed and final.” Ima Ifum, Collider grandillusioncinema.org/film/the-hot...

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  • New York State of Mind @patrickkevin.bsky.socialBluesky · May 18, 2025

    Whether playing a punk in Nic Ray’s “Rebel Without a Cause,” a wronged villain in “Speed,” or the nitrous oxide-snorting maniac in “Blue Velvet,” he was an artist. “Easy Rider” apparently redefined independent film. And his steamy 1990 “The Hot Spot” spawned a soundtrack I still love.

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  • On This Day - Scala Cinema @otdscalacinema.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 26, 2025

    On this day (26th February) in 1991, the Scala Cinema was showing The Kill-Off and The Hot Spot as a double bill.

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  • Hunter Complex / Lars Meijer @huntercomplex.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 28, 2025

    Virginia Madsen & Don Johnson in Dennis Hopper's The Hot Spot (1990). Brooding movie with an equally brooding soundtrack by Jack Nitzsche.

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  • TL Bugg @tlbugg.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 24, 2025

    I was watching the Cinema Force video today The Hot Spot: Better In Black and White, and I got inspired to see for myself. Like the film, I like it both ways #filmnoir #movieart #artsky

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  • Mario @assertedbullet.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 4, 2024

    Watched The Hot Spot for roommate movie night. I’d never seen it before. We had a guest over. Insanely horny movie to watch with a stranger.

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  • Stephen LN @riffsandmeaning.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 18, 2024

    Published this year by Routledge is Music and Sound in the Films of Dennis Hopper, part of the Filmmakers and Their Soundtracks series. Covering the music and sound of Hopper's directorial films Easy Rider, The Last Movie, Out of the Blue, Colors, and The Hot Spot.

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  • Daniel Roberts @drobertsimg.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 13, 2024

    I remember seeing every Connolly movie after falling in love during Career Opportunities (I was 10). The Hot Spot (and Labyrinth, if that counts) are the only ones that stuck with me.

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  • Cinema Sentries @cinemasentries.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 20, 2026

    The Hot Spot Blu-ray Review: A Dark, Sweaty Film Noir cinemasentries.com/the-hot-spot... @filmsradiance.bsky.social @themidnightcafe.bsky.social

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  • Everything Action @everythingaction.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 2, 2026

    28 Days Later is on 4K this week along with A Bay of Blood from Severin, The Hot Spot, The Dirty Harry 5 Movie Collection, and more in the New Release Round Up.

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  • AJ @robi1409.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 11, 2026

    #julymoviechallenge #moviesky #filmsky 07/05 someone wears a bikini in a movie The Hot Spot [1990]

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  • J Kelly @john63kelly.bsky.socialBluesky · May 29, 2026

    Good shout for the Hot Spot. Terrific film. And they still play the soundtrack on Jazz FM regularly.

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  • Dr. Dani Sanchez @analgesicsleepMastodon · Apr 16, 2026

    If there’s one thing I’ve learned from #SilentFilm & #PreCode -era films it’s that folx got publically rowdy and destructive quickly and at the drop of a hat! #RetroView #TheHotSpot

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  • admitonedaily.bsky.social @admitonedaily.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 26, 2026

    Completely forgot I saw this at the cinema. Also forgot it was directed by Dennis Hopper. Have not forgotten that Jennifer Connolly is in it. #admitonedaily #thehotspot #1990smovies #ticketstub callsheetapp.com/movie/14864

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  • Stephen LN @riffsandmeaning.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 25, 2025

    Share a '90s movie that you think deserves more love. Dennis Hopper's 1990 film The Hot Spot.

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  • Jason Westhaver 🇨🇦 @njiska.comBluesky · Jul 15, 2025

    Also Phenomena and the Hot Spot, which I remember for... reasons. This was her 9th film, I beleive.

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  • Stephen LN @riffsandmeaning.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 17, 2025

    Hey Valerie. I'm kind of a Hopper fan. You should watch all the above, but also his second directorial film, The Last Movie. Beautiful and weird. He also directed a film called The Hot Spot, which is very cool. Tracks, River's Edge, Rumblefish, Speed for a bit of fun. Lots to explore and enjoy.

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  • Kevin Kasch (他妈/他妈的) @tenletters.bsky.socialBluesky · May 23, 2025

    Have now sourced the collection you edited, heh, as a big fan of Willeford myself. I'll post something about the other Hoke Moseley books as soon as later today, as a follow-up to a tangentially-related post made halfway recently here. And yeah, I love that movie (>THE HOT SPOT, or even COCKFIGHTER)

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  • マリオ (Mario Menti) @[email protected]Mastodon · Feb 18, 2025

    The Hot Spot ホットスポット is definitely my favourite new Japanese TV series this year. On Nippon TV and Netflix (and probably some other streaming platforms), the premise is that a single mother living in a small Yamanashi town in the shadow of Mount Fuji discovers that her co-worker at the hotel she works at (who looks about as un-alien-like as you could imagine) is in fact an alien. But thankfully it doesn't turn into some sci fi thing, but stays resolutely anchored in the everyday and mundane,…

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  • Jim Fusilli @jimfusilli.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 27, 2024

    Saw it last night on MGM+ and really enjoyed it. Written and directed by Shane Atkinson in his feature-film debut. Of its kind, I'd place it a just notch below "The Hot Spot," "Red Rock West" and "Cold in July." Trailer: tinyurl.com/yzx6sepv

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  • Richard Swift @swiftofopal.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 10, 2024

    FW The Hot Spot It feels like a central premise of this movie is ‘isn’t oral sex scandalous.’ 😱 Which, in 1990, I’m sure people were pretending it was. And I’m sure Dennis Hopper shot this so unsexily out of ratings board fears… Who I’m sure would have been among the people pretending.

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  • sharperstill @sharperstill.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 28, 2023

    quote skeet with one of ur favorite films that is not a huge hit lets get to know each other a bit more The Hot Spot directed by Dennis Hopper and starring Don Johnson

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  • Chad Michael Ward @chadmichaelward.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 28, 2026

    REALLY enjoying THE HOT SPOT. Haven’t had time to finish it yet, but it’s a weird little film that feels right at home in early 80s dystopian sci-fi. Reviews complain about the bad acting due to Polish actors having to read off English cue cards, but I think that adds to its vibe. #filmsky

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  • jp @jprrMastodon · Sep 27, 2026

    The Hot Spot (1990) is a classic study in moral paralysis and divided allegiance. #TheHotSpot #MovieReview #Crime #Drama #Thriller #Noir https://pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2026/09/27/the-hot-spot-1990-the-lukewarm-soul-and-the-two-masters/

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  • Erik Childress @erikthemovieman.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 31, 2026

    This week in physical media on #MovieMadness @petersob13 and I look at a pair of Barbara Kopple documentaries, #28DaysLater, #Ozploitation, the making & unmaking of 54, Lady In White, Practical Magic, Enemy at the Gates plus Dennis Hopper's The Hot Spot. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...

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  • metacritic @metacritic.comBluesky · Aug 21, 2026

    The Hot Spot [55] www.metacritic.com/movie/the-ho... #11pmspecial "Pretty silly. The Hot Spot certainly is, and it's occasionally quite entertaining for it, though the picture never really achieves a dimension beyond that of a Playboy Party Joke." - Dave Kehr, Chicago Tribune

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  • Mick Muldoon @mickmuldoon.eurosky.socialBluesky · Jun 24, 2026

    What’s that Don Johnson movie? The Hot Spot?

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  • Cho Desu @chodesu.bsky.socialBluesky · May 26, 2026

    The tone of this reminded me a lot of a J-drama on Netflix called "The Hot Spot," which is also set in an inn in a scenic rural area (though that one has a view of Mt. Fuji) and uses a sci-fi premise as a backdrop for simple character-driven narratives. Check that out if you enjoyed this movie.

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  • Disc-Connected: Your trusted news source in physical media @disc-connected.bsky.socialBluesky · May 6, 2026

    LIMITED EDITION SPECIAL FEATURES 4K restoration from the OCN, presented in HDR / Dolby Vision 4K UHD & Blu-ray presentation of the film Uncompressed stereo PCM audio Archival interview with Hopper, who discusses The Hot Spot and features footage of John Lee Hooker/images from the set (1991, 4 min)

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  • Disc-Connected: Your trusted news source in physical media @disc-connected.bsky.socialBluesky · May 6, 2026

    Adapted from Hell Hath No Fury by Charles Williams, The Hot Spot is a dusty, sweaty modern noir that updates the pulp formula of twists and turns with an intensity to match director Dennis Hopper’s earlier film roles. Directed by Hopper (Easy Rider, Out of the Blue) with verve,

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  • Admit One Daily @admitonedailyMastodon · Mar 26, 2026

    Completely forgot I saw this at the cinema. Also forgot it was directed by Dennis Hopper. Have not forgotten that Jennifer Connolly is in it. #admitonedaily #thehotspot #1990smovies #ticketstub https://callsheetapp.com/movie/14864

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  • based acid ॐ @basedacid.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 19, 2025

    Quote post with a song you can't hear without thinking of a movie it was in. Flock of Seagulls • Space Age Love Song ~ Jennifer Connelly • The Hot Spot Rawr 🦁 www.youtube.com/watch?v=tG2S...

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  • Ryan Patrick @ryguy75.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 4, 2025

    My ★★★★ review of The Hot Spot on Letterboxd boxd.it/bg1Y05 90s Movie Month

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  • Gabriel Wolfenstein @gabewolfe.bsky.socialBluesky · May 31, 2025

    Virginia is such a classic fuckin hottie. She appeared in a trashy movie called The Hot Spot, which also featured a young Jennifer Connelly, and the flick was very important to the development of my masturbation habit.

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  • Shaula Evans @[email protected]Mastodon · Apr 15, 2025

    Now that I'm several episodes into The Hot Spot 2025 (Hotto Supotto) from Japan on Netflix, I'm even more fascinated by it. I'd love to know how it's been received in Japan, if anyone has read Japanese reviews. If you check it out, take time to sit with it until the full weirdness manifests. It's so much more than it seems at the start. And if you love Roy Andersson's films, The Hot Spot is really worth checking out. 2/n #TheHotSpot #HottoSupotto #RoyAndersson

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  • Shaula Evans @[email protected]Mastodon · Apr 10, 2025

    I am watching The Hot Spot 2025 (Hotto Supotto) from Japan on Netflix and the series is like a cross between David Lynch and Roy Andersson, while being extremely Japanese. Much like watching A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (En duva satt på en gren och funderade på tillvaron), you need to embrace this on its own terms and suspend your expectations until you sink into its rhythms. 1/n #Netflix #Japan #TheHotSpot @film #DavidLynch #RoyAndersson

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  • Francis Booth @francisbooth.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 6, 2025

    I woke up this past Saturday morning with a need to watch this film. I sat down and watched what must be Dennis Hopper's best film though I still need to watch 'Out of the Blue' and 'The Hot Spot'. I hope the feeling I had after seeing the credits start to roll stays with me for some time.

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  • hainsworthy.bsky.social @hainsworthy.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 28, 2025

    boxd.it/9fKXWd #filmsky #thehotspot #donjohnson #virginiamadsen #jenniferconnelly

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  • Dale @[email protected]Mastodon · Feb 8, 2025

    #TheHotSpot on Netflix is soo good! Great concept and well written ☺️

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  • optiMSTie @optimstie.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 20, 2024

    I'll make my pick Land of the Dead, because I'm far too subjective to select anything other than a Romero movie here. (Although I do love the hell out of Hoosiers and Blue Velvet.) If we're taking directorial stuff into account as well? The Hot Spot freaking rules as an atmospheric neo-noir vision.

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