Johnny Handsome

Johnny Handsome is a career criminal born with a severe facial deformity, which has shaped both how he is treated and the life he has fallen into. During a robbery, his accomplices betray him, killing his closest friend and leaving him to be arrested. Offered leniency in exchange for naming those involved, he refuses. A prison doctor later performs surgery to reconstruct his face, and when Johnny is released under a new identity, his past remains very much alive. He sets out to settle accounts with the people who betrayed him.

Walter Hill directed the film, the twelfth of the twenty-two features he has made in chronological order, following Red Heat and preceding Another 48 Hrs. Ken Friedman wrote the screenplay, and Charles Roven produced. Mickey Rourke plays Johnny, with Ellen Barkin and Lance Henriksen as the partners who wronged him, Morgan Freeman as a police lieutenant, Forest Whitaker as the surgeon and Elizabeth McGovern as Donna McCarty. Twenty cast members and 113 crew are credited.

Released on 12 September 1989, the film runs 94 minutes and was made for a budget of 20 million US dollars, against a worldwide box office of about 7 million. On IMDb it holds a rating of 6.3 from 15 reviews, and it sits at 6.3 on TMDB from 302 votes.