A man heading to Vegas to pay off his gambling debt before the Russian mafia kills him is forced to stop in an Arizona town where everything that can go wrong does go wrong.A man heading to Vegas to pay off his gambling debt before the Russian mafia kills him is forced to stop in an Arizona town where everything that can go wrong does go wrong.A man heading to Vegas to pay off his gambling debt before the Russian mafia kills him is forced to stop in an Arizona town where everything that can go wrong does go wrong.
- Awards
- 1 win & 2 nominations
Ilia Volok
- Sergi
- (as Ilia Volokh)
Valeriy Nikolaev
- Mr. Arkady
- (as Valery Nikolaev)
Julie Hagerty
- Flo
- (as Julie Haggerty)
Annie Tien
- Short Order Cook
- (as Annie Mei-Ling Tien)
Storyline
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- TriviaWhen Jennifer Lopez's character (Grace McKenna) flashes back at the end of the film we see lots of photographs of her as a child. These photographs are actually photos from Jennifer Lopez's private collections of herself as a child.
- GoofsNot only is there a visible line attached to the vulture's leg in one scene, this vulture and all vultures shown in the movie are of a species that does not exist in the United States.
There are a lot of those vultures flying around for a bird that doesn't live there. California condors were re-introduced in the wild in 1996.
- SoundtracksIt's A Good Day
Written by Peggy Lee and Dave Barbour
Performed by Peggy Lee
Courtesy of Capitol Records under license from EMI-Capitol Music Special Markets
Featured review
Black humour of a kind rarely seen in mainstream Hollywood
As usual before adding my two ha'porth-worth of comment, I looked at other comments (including Roger Ebert). And, although I didn't read all of them (there are very many), I was surprised that none I read seemed to pick up what was perfectly obvious to me: this is a very funny film, but done in a deadpan style. So deadpan, in fact, that I'm not surprised that might be news to many. I have, coincidentally, recently been buying up on DVD quite a few classic film noir (Build My Gallows High, The Strange Love Of Martha Ivers) and like everyone else thought that the era of film noir had come and gone and that such films were no longer being produced. Well, blow me if I'm not very wrong: this is quintessential film noir (though done in colour and with the proviso that most film noir is not intended to be funny). It would be pointless to recount the plot, but if you liked all those classic Mitchum/Bogart/Van Helin/Edwrad g Robinson etc films, you will love this. Sean Penn never disappoints. By the way the very final twist in the plot had me laughing out loud. Go for it: you won't be disappointed.
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Box office
- Budget
- $19,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $6,682,098
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $2,730,440
- Oct 5, 1997
- Gross worldwide
- $6,682,098
- Runtime2 hours 5 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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