A Hero of Our Time (1985)

Loosely based on a section of Mikhail Lermontovs classic Russian novel of the same title the film involves a displaced cowboy played by Kevin Jarre the screenwriter of Rambo a sociopathic record producer Dennis Hopper and caught between them a gumchewing valley girl who would rather be somewhere else Natalie Zimmerman Lermontovs 19th century novel leaves a vapor trail on the action but A Hero of Our Time is more precisely a portrait of contemporary Los Angeles a tale of wayward heroism played out against a landscape of yearning and desolation Directorwriter Michael Almereyda whose screenplay for Wim Wenders Until the End of the World will be produced this year completed principal photography for A Hero of Our Time in October of 1985 Dennis Hoppers participation occurred during a break in the filming of Blue Velvet