John `'Johnny Handsome'` Sedley/Johnny Mitchell
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John Sedley is a man with a disfigured face, mocked by others as "Johnny Handsome." He and a friend are double-crossed by two accomplices in a crime, Sunny Boyd and her partner Rafe, and a Judge sends Johnny to jail, where he vows to get even once he gets out.
Johnny Handsome: Directed by Walter Hill. With Mickey Rourke, Ellen Barkin, Elizabeth McGovern, Morgan Freeman. After being double crossed and thrown in jail, a deformed gangster gets a new face and rehabilitation, but his desire for revenge looms.
- (11K)
- Crime, Drama, Thriller
- Walter Hill
- 1989-09-29
Ken Friedman. Screenplay. A career criminal who has been deformed since birth is given a new face by a kindly doctor and paroled from prison. It appears that he has gone straight, but he is really planning his revenge on the man who killed his mentor and sent him to prison.
Petty career crook John Sedley (Mickey Rourke) is called Johnny Handsome because of his deformed face. His knack for observing and planning gets him and his friend into a robbery of a collectable coin store with Sunny Boyd (Ellen Barkin) and Rafe Garrett (Lance Henriksen) but the job goes sideways.
Rourke portrays John Sedley AKA "Johnny Handsome", a facially-deformed robber/planner who ends up in jail after being betrayed by two thieves who took part in the robbery, which also saw his friend getting killed.
They call him “Johnny Handsome” because his face has been horribly disfigured since birth, and as the movie opens he and his best friend have been double-crossed by a couple of crooks who kill the friend, steal the loot and leave Johnny to take the rap. In jail, he’s offered a deal if he’ll identify his accomplices.
John Sedley (Rourke), AKA: Johnny Handsome, has a severely disfigured face, when he and his only real friend are double-crossed by two accomplices during a robbery, Johnny is sent to prison and his life reach... read the rest.
