The Last Days of Frankie The Fly is a 1996 black comedy

Black comedy

A black comedy, or dark comedy, is a comic work that employs black humor or gallows humor. The definition of black humor is problematic; it has been argued that it corresponds to the earlier concept of gallows humor; and that, as humor has been defined since Freud as a comedic act that anesthetizes...

 and gangster film directed by Peter Markle

Peter Markle

Peter Markle is an American TV and film director. He has worked on Everwood, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, and The X-Files as well as many other programs. He was director of the successful "Flight 93" in 2006 and he also directed the poorly-received comedy western film Wagons East!...

 and starring Dennis Hopper

Dennis Hopper

Dennis Lee Hopper was an American actor, filmmaker and artist. As a young man, Hopper became interested in acting and eventually became a student of the Actors' Studio. He made his first television appearance in 1954 and appeared in two films featuring James Dean, Rebel Without a Cause and Giant...

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Plot

Hopper plays Frankie, a pimp

Pimp

A pimp is an agent for prostitutes who collects part of their earnings. The pimp may receive this money in return for advertising services, physical protection, or for providing a location where she may engage clients...

 working for the Hollywood Mafia

Mafia

The Mafia is a criminal syndicate that emerged in the mid-nineteenth century in Sicily, Italy. It is a loose association of criminal groups that share a common organizational structure and code of conduct, and whose common enterprise is protection racketeering...

 in the late 1980s. Fed up with his violent and abusive boss Sal, Frankie decides to make his own porno

Porno

Porno may refer to:* Pornography, is the explicit depiction of sexual subject matter with the principal intention of sexually exciting the viewer...

 movie with his love interest Margaret: a prostitute seeking to escape her heroin addiction and become an actress, and his friend Joe: a washed-up film director who owes a gambling debt to the mob. When Sal finds out he abducts and torture

Torture

Torture is the act of inflicting severe pain as a means of punishment, revenge, forcing information or a confession, or simply as an act of cruelty. Throughout history, torture has often been used as a method of political re-education, interrogation, punishment, and coercion...

s Margaret and Joey, then films it to taunt Frankie. Instead of heeding Sal's warning and fleeing town, Frankie plots his revenge on his former boss

Cast and Crew

Dennis Hopper

Dennis Hopper

Dennis Lee Hopper was an American actor, filmmaker and artist. As a young man, Hopper became interested in acting and eventually became a student of the Actors' Studio. He made his first television appearance in 1954 and appeared in two films featuring James Dean, Rebel Without a Cause and Giant...

... Frankie

Daryl Hannah

Daryl Hannah

Daryl Christine Hannah is an American film actress. After making her screen debut in 1978, Hannah starred in a number of Hollywood films throughout the 1980s, notably Blade Runner, Splash, Wall Street and Roxanne and Kill Bill.-Early life:Hannah was born in Chicago, Illinois, the daughter of Susan...

... Margaret

Michael Madsen

Michael Madsen

Michael Søren Madsen is an American actor, poet, and photographer. He has appeared in more than 150 films, most of them small independent films, though he has starred in central roles in such films as Reservoir Dogs, Free Willy, Donnie Brasco, and Kill Bill, in addition to a supporting role in Sin...

... Sal

Kiefer Sutherland

Kiefer Sutherland

Kiefer Sutherland is an English-born Canadian actor, producer and director, best known for his portrayal of Jack Bauer on the Fox thriller drama series 24 for which he has won an Emmy Award , a Golden Globe award , two Screen Actors Guild Awards and two Satellite...

... Joey

Dayton Callie ... Vic

Charles Carroll ... Thug

Jack McGee ... Jack

Karen Roe ... Sal's Girl

Bert Rosario ... Miguel

Adam Scott

Adam Scott (actor)

Adam Scott is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as Henry Pollard in the Starz comedy series Party Down and as Ben Wyatt in the NBC comedy Parks and Recreation....

... Race Track Valet

Jon Ross ... Waiter

Vanessa Ann Giorgio ... Bathroom Girl (as Vanessa Giorgio)

David 'Shark' Fralick ... Porno Actor (as David Shark)

Jana Robbins ... Nurse

Nicholas Mele ... Race Track Man (as Nick Mele)