Romeo Is Bleeding

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Romeo Is Bleeding
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Directed by	Peter Medak
Produced by	Hilary Henkin Paul Webster
Written by	Hilary Henkin
Starring	Gary Oldman Lena Olin Annabella Sciorra Juliette Lewis Roy Scheider
Music by	Mark Isham Gary Alper
Cinematography	Dariusz Wolski
Editing by	Walter Murch
Distributed by	Gramercy Pictures
Release date(s)	1994
Running time	100 min.
Country	U.K. / U.S.A.
Language	English
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Romeo Is Bleeding is a 1994 darkly comic police story starring Lena Olin and Gary Oldman. The film's title was taken from a Tom Waits song. Oldman plays a bad cop on the take whose actions finally catch up with him. Olin is Mona, a murderous Russian hit woman.

[edit] Cast

Gary Oldman as Jack Grimaldi
Lena Olin as Mona Demarkov
Annabella Sciorra as Natalie Grimaldi
Juliette Lewis as Sheri
Roy Scheider as Don Falcone
David Proval as Scully
Will Patton as Martie

[edit] Trivia

According to Bon Jovi's "100,000,000 Bon Jovi Fans Can't be Wrong" Collection, Jon Bon Jovi mentioned in the confession book that he wrote the song, "Always" for this film. They didn't like it so they scrapped it and put on the shelf. The song never did appear in the soundtrack/movie of the film. However, the song was released as a single (as well as a track on Bon Jovi's greatest hits album "Crossroads") and it has become one of Bon Jovi's biggest selling singles. It reached number 4 in the USA, number 1 in Australia and number 2 in the UK (As of June 2006, it is still the highest selling Bon Jovi single in the UK.)
According to IMDb[1] it was released in 1993.