

A supermarket clerk decides to step in for an absent drug dealer, setting off an explosive, comedic chain of events.
Writing
Three interlocking stories that actually pay off
Direction
Liman's kinetic style before he got Bourne-ified
Acting
Olyphant's sleazy charisma is off the charts

Director
Doug Liman
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Liman's follow-up to Swingers, and he shot the rave scenes at actual underground parties with real ravers as extras.
The film captures the precise moment before the dot-com bust and 9/11 killed '90s slacker culture dead—it's a time capsule of pre-irony earnestness.