A female con-artist who sweet-talks wealthy men targeted by her violent boyfriend, then drugs them and makes off with their money, is being herself being watched by another man. He wants to use her talents in a much-bigger scam: ripping off a crime lord by getting at his programmer's computer files. But she starts to have doubts about what he's really after when she finds a huge stash of loot with the disks. He claims no knowledge of the money, she distrusts him, he's using her, things start getting dangerous and even murderous - and then her boyfriend shows up ! Who's scamming whom ?
Acting
Walken at peak weird-intensity, Bracco magnetic and wounded
Direction
Flynn's lean noir efficiency after Rolling Thunder
Writing
David L. Wolper's script keeps three cons spinning
Director
John Flynn
Christopher Walken
Jack Shanks
Lorraine Bracco
Maggie Rohrer
Miguel Ferrer
Barry Landers
Martin Donovan
Gordon Wexler
James McDaniel
Daniel Poole
Daniel von Bargen
Albert Magliocco
Erick Avari
Mr. Ayub
Skipp Sudduth
Bob Sarcominia
Carmen López
Waitress
Maxi Priest
Cab Driver
James Walker
Arthur Hopper
Xavier Coronel
Warwick Desk Clerk
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This aired on Showtime but played like a theatrical B-movie—director John Flynn was a Peckinpah acolyte who made Rolling Thunder.
Bracco made this during her Goodfellas hangover period, right before Medicine Man tanked her film career—her rawness here feels accidentally autobiographical.
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