The Blackout (1997 film)

The Blackout
The Blackout
Directed by	Abel Ferrara
Written by	Abel Ferrara; Marla Hanson; Chris Zois
Produced by	Edward R. Pressman; Clayton Townsend
Starring	Matthew Modine
Cinematography	Ken Kelsch
Edited by	Anthony Redman
Music by	Joe Delia
Production; company	MDP Worldwide
Distributed by	Destination Films
Release date	June 11, 1997;
Running time	98 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$110.000

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.^[2]

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.