This picture is difficult to explain to someone who's never laid eyes on it ..
It takes place in an "alternative reality" It's a world within a world, a city within a city. "Rain City" is a fictional town based on the city of Seattle, where the streets are always wet and the fog is always low.
A city famous for it's "Flesh Avenue" It's Grunge, it's Curt Cobains and Frances Farmer. A famous actress of the thirties and early forties who went out of her mind and spent years in the dank filth of a Washington State Madhouse.
The story starts with the gates of a prison opening up.
A wooden figure in dark clothes walks out that goes by the name of "Hawk" ( Kris Kristofferson) Hawk is a cop. Hawk is a mystery. Every character in this film is a mystery. Everyone from Wanda, (played mystically by Genevieve Bujold) the generous, sensitive , middle-aged world-weary owner of the greasy spoon where the first part of this film takes place, to the streetwise guy that goes by the name of "Solo", to the losers and winos, the chumps and the gamblers and everyone in between who frequent Wanda's place.
Enter Coop,( Keith Carradine) and Georgia, his wide-eyed, child-like wife played sweet to the bone by Lori Singer.. They have a child. They have no money. The child is hungry. It seems everyone is hungry in this film. Rain City is a hungry town. When we first see Coop, he's wearing a flannel shirt. This all eventually changes when he takes up with Solo, leaving his wife and baby alone in a old trailer, Coop is off (only once) to make a few bucks to feed his wife and child until he can get a real job. This is a very bad move. Coop knows one thing.. Cities are Bad and they make people do Bad Things. He does some bad things, including getting on the wrong side of the law big time. Hawk tries to warn Coop. Hawk also has his eye on Georgia. Hawk is better for Georgia then Coop is. Hawk gets her

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