Light Sleeper (1992) review

New York City-based drug dealer John LeTour (Willem Dafoe), who works for no-nonsense Ann (Susan Sarandon), is unhappy with the profession and wants to do something different for a career (like music production ... except he doesn't seem to know how to play any instruments), but when his ex-wife (and fellow recovering addict) Marianne Jost (Dana Delany) reappears, he's desperate to rekindle their relationship even though she tries avoiding him (with the exception of one overembellished sex scene).  For Schrader, it's another instance of him referencing/recycling himself: LeTour is a frozen-faced anti-hero and the audience only really "learns" about his "inner world" through vague diary entries, there's a psychic named Teresa Aranow (Mary Beth Hurt) who seems to be able to decode every situation with just a glance and a Taxi Driver-esque conclusion in which everything is "solved" with gunfire (instead of a proper police investigation).  It's a vacuous effort made worse by the obnoxious songs by Michael Been (Bob Dylan was apparently approached to provide the soundtrack but those negotiations unfortunately didn't work out), although it kind of refreshing to see Jane Adams, Sam Rockwell and comedian David Spade (as a philosophical junkie) in early roles.