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After being released from prison on a bum charge, Harry Barber is out for payback to regain his lost two years. He's hired by Mrs. Malroux to fake the kidnapping of her stepdaughter (the daughter of a dying millionaire). He discovers that he is being set up on multiple levels and will soon face a longer sentence if he doesn't prove the truth.
1998 · Directed by Volker Schlöndorff · 114 min · Crime · Mystery · Thriller · 10 frames
Tagline
In a town this bad, it's no use being good.
Crew
- Screenplay: E. Max Frye
- Cinematography: Thomas Kloss
- Edited by: Peter Przygodda
- Music: Klaus Doldinger
- Production design: Claire Jenora Bowin
- Produced by: Matthias Wendlandt
Cast
- Woody Harrelson as Harry Barber
- Gina Gershon as Nina
- Elisabeth Shue as Rhea Malroux
- Rolf Hoppe as Felix Malroux
- Michael Rapaport as Donnelly
- Chloë Sevigny as Odette
- Tom Wright as John Renick
- Marc Macaulay as Miles Meadows
- Joe Hickey as Lawyer
- Ralph Wilcox as Judge
Production
- Country: United States of America, Germany
- Language: English
- Studios: Castle Rock Entertainment, Rialto Films
- Box office: $5,878,911
- Themes: based on novel or book, kidnapping, cigarette, femme fatale, scam, writer, framed for a crime, set up, temptation, newspaper reporter
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