The Blackout is a 1997 American drama film directed by Abel Ferrara and starring Matthew Modine. It was screened out of competition at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival.
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Plot
Matty is an actor and popular film star who is tired of Hollywood life and moves to Miami, where he makes a marriage proposal to his French girlfriend Annie. She is not ready to marry him, and it is revealed that she had an abortion. Depressed because he lost his baby (though it was he who initially asked for abortion), Matty, together with his friend Micky, go out for a wild night. At a nightclub, they meet a young waitress also named Annie and at the end of the night Matty passes out.
A year and a half later, Matty lives in New York, leads a clean life visiting AA meetings and has a relationship with an attractive model named Susan. He is still obsessed with his former girlfriend Annie, and about the mysterious missing part of his night back in Miami. Matty travels back to Miami to look up some old friends as well as try to find Annie 1, who vanished without a trace. Matty eventually learns that some secrets from his past are best left unrevealed.
Cast
Matthew Modine as Matty
Claudia Schiffer as Susan
Béatrice Dalle as Annie 1
Sarah Lassez as Annie 2
Dennis Hopper as Mickey Wayne
Steven Bauer as Mickey's Studio Actor
Laura Bailey as Mickey's Studio Actress
Nancy Ferrara as Mickey's Studio Actress
Andrew Fiscella as Mickey's Studio Actor (credited as Andy Fiscella)
Vincent Lamberti as Mickey's Studio Actor
Victoria Duffy as Script Girl
Nicholas De Cegli as Miami Drug Dealer
Daphne Duplaix as Daphne, Fly Girl
Mercy Lopez as Jasmine, Fly Girl
Lori Eastside as That Girl
Shareef Malnik as Gold Carder
Peter Cannold as Movie Investor