A small southwestern town sheriff finds a body in the desert with a suitcase and $500,000. He impersonates the man and stumbles into an FBI investigation.
Acting
Dafoe's anxious everyman against Rourke's sleazy menace
Cinematography
White sands as blank canvas for moral emptiness
Writing
Script by writer of Chinatown, though not THAT good
Director
Roger Donaldson
Willem Dafoe
Deputy Sheriff Ray Dolezal
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
Lane Bodine
Mickey Rourke
Gorman Lennox
Samuel L. Jackson
Greg Meeker
M. Emmet Walsh
Bert Gibson
James Rebhorn
FBI Agent Flynn
Maura Tierney
Noreen
Beth Grant
Roz Kincaid
Fredrick Lopez
Delmar Blackwater
Miguel Sandoval
FBI Agent Ruiz
John Lafayette
FBI Agent Demott
Jack Kehler
Casanov
Royce D. Applegate
Peterson
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Mickey Rourke was paid $1 million for roughly ten days of work, reportedly spending most of it on his motorcycle collection.
Part of a brief 1990s resurgence of Southwest noir after Blood Simple and Red Rock West, though it largely vanished from cultural memory.
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