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
Did you know
- 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
Modern noir with a dark twist...
Brilliant & hallucinatory cinematography, impeccable use of music, and a handful of dark, edgy character sketches all work together very nicely to make this bleak, dark-humoured desert noir an overlooked highlight of Oliver Stone's career. The highly evocative atmosphere plays out against the Arizona desert in a way that (in addition to foreshadowing some of the work done in Terry Gilliam's own twisted little masterpiece 'Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas') seems to mirror, in a more subtle and tasteful manner, much of Stone's work in 'Natural Born Killers'. However, rather than hitting us over the head with whatever socially charged 'message' he may have been attempting to convey in that film, here he is simply content to let it build up a thick and steamy ambience that moves our hapless comrades on towards their own impending personal apocalypse. Nick Nolte, Sean Penn, and Jennifer Lopez all turn in great performances and Billy Bob Thornton's eccentric character sketch elevates what may be defined as a bit part to a far more relevant status. Modern noir with a few dark twists and a taste all it's own that's well worth digging into...for those who have a taste for this kind of thing, if you know what I mean.
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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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