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Warner Bros. Pictures
details
Studio: Castle Rock Entertainment
Release Date: Apr 26, 2002
Running Time: 103 mins.
Country Of Origin: United States
synopsis
After the murder of his beloved wife, Danny Parker, a man in search of redemption, is set adrift in a world where nothing is as it seems. On his journey, he befriends slacker Jimmy "The Finn", becomes involved in rescuing his neighbor Colette from her own demons, and gets entangled in a web of deceit full of unexpected twists and turns.
cast + crew
Director
Danny Parker/ Tom
Pooh-Bear
Kujo
Quincy
Morgan Tanner
Garcetti
Bobby
Jimmy the Finn
Colette
Liz
screenplay
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Producer
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Executive Producer
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Executive Producer
reviews
April 10, 2002
This tricky film noir starts all poetic-like, with Val Kilmer playing jazz trumpet and then telling us in voice-over why his world went up in flames (literally, we see the flames). No fear. There's more life in this baby than the opening lets on. In flashback, we learn that Kilmer's Danny Parker is a jazz musician driven by tragedy -- the murder of his wife (Chandra West) -- to turn police informant and go undercover in the Los Angeles sub-culture of crystal-methamphetamine junkies. These…
A slick, film noir crime melodrama unfolds in the gritty, drug-addled underworld of meth junkies and cop corruption. Story Appropriately enough, this movie gets its title from the stinking saltwater lake in California's Imperial Valley that used to be a popular recreation spot before irrigation runoff poisoned the waters, the fish and the community surrounding it. It's this run-down white-trash desert ''destination'' that serves as the backdrop for this arty, noirish, unpleasant film that more… |
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