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TIN MEN told the story of a hustler, "BB" (Richard Dreyfus,) and a loser, "Tilley" (Danny DeVito), both in the aluminum-siding business whose lives converge after they meet in a car accident. John Mahoney plays BB's partner, "Moe Adams," considered the best “tin man” in the business. Barry Levinson directed the 1987 comedy-drama. The film had an unreleased score consisting of period songs from the 1963 era, original music from the group Fine Young Cannibals, and background music by David Steele and Andy Cox.
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In the romantic comedy MOONSTRUCK, John Mahoney plays "Perry," a regular at the Grand Ticino restaurant, where the characters often meet. Mahoney later acknowledged that his role in this film got him widespread attention, helping him get cast in the TV series "Frasier." Norman Jewison directed the 1987 film. Dick Hyman composed the background score and adapted the opera and classical selections that peppered the soundtrack.
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Mahoney co-starred as the Head of American Services, "Jimmy R. Williams," at the U.S. Embassy in Paris in the 1988 Harrison Ford thriller FRANTIC, which was directed by Roman Polanski. An expanded version of Ennio Morricone's score was released by Film Score Monthly in 2011.
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BETRAYED follows an FBI agent (Debra Winger) posing as a combine driver who becomes romantically involved with a Midwest farmer (Tom Berenger) who is suspected of being a white supremacist. John Mahoney co-stars as one of the farmer's friends, "Shorty." Costa-Gavras directed this 1988 thriller. Bill Conti's score was released by Varese Sarabande.
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EIGHT MEN OUT was a dramatization of the "Black Sox" scandal, when the underpaid Chicago White Sox accepted bribes to deliberately lose the 1919 World Series. John Cusack starred as George 'Buck' Weaver, the only player who did not receive money. Nevertheless, he was later banned from baseball with the others for knowing about the fix but not reporting it. John Mahoney played White Sox manager “Kid" Gleason. John Sayles directed the 1988 film. His usual composer, Mason Daring, had his score released by Varese Sarabande.
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SAY ANYTHING... takes place in Seattle, where Lakewood High School valedictorian "Diane Court" (Ione Skye) tells her indifferent classmates that the future is optimistic, but frightening. Diane’s intelligence has alienated her from her peers, and her wealthy, divorced father, "James Court" (John Mahoney), is her only friend.
The film was originally conceived by executive producer James L. Brooks, when he observed a young woman and her father walking in New York City. The man attentively guided the girl across the street, and Brooks wondered what might happen if the man was concealing a villainous secret life. Brooks had met writer-director Cameron Crowe in the mid-1980s, and after following the young man’s journalism career, as well as his screenwriting debuts FAST TIME AT RIDGEMONT HIGH (1982) and its follow-up, THE WILD LIFE (1984), he had Crowe write a ninety-page novella before outlining the screenplay. SAY ANYTHING... marked Crowe’s feature film directorial debut. To develop the script, Crowe conducted interviews with young people, spent time with his grandmother at a nursing home, and met Brooks weekly to develop the character “James Court.”
None of the film's music score by Richard Gibbs and Anne Dudley made it on to the song-track album released by WTG Records. Seattle would later be the backdrop for "Fraiser," on which Mahoney and a fellow cast-mate from SAY ANTHING..., Bebe Neuwirth, would appear.
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The very last Broadway Show I went to in New York before I left the city, was Craig Lucas's 'PRELUDE TO A KISS'. The two male stars were so ideally suited to playing off each other; the great comedic talents of Alan Tudyk and John Mahoney. It was a magical show!
Also, if you ever want to see the 'scary' side of John Mahoney, catch his 'Jekyll & Hyde' performance in the 90's film, 'Primal Fear'.
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