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Title: The Big Easy (1986)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Dennis Quaid | ... | Remy McSwain | |
| Ellen Barkin | ... | Anne Osborne | |
| Ned Beatty | ... | Jack Kellom | |
| John Goodman | ... | Det. Andre DeSoto | |
| Lisa Jane Persky | ... | McCabe | |
| Ebbe Roe Smith | ... | Ed Dodge | |
| Tom O'Brien | ... | Bobby McSwain | |
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Charles Ludlam | ... | Lamar Parmentel |
| Grace Zabriskie | ... | Mama | |
| Marc Lawrence | ... | Vinnie 'The Cannon' DiMotti | |
| Solomon Burke | ... | Daddy Mention | |
| Gailard Sartain | ... | Chef Paul | |
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Jim Chimento | ... | Freddie Angelo |
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Edward Saint Pe' | ... | Patrolman (as Edward St. Pe) |
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Robert Lesser | ... | 'Silky' Foster |
Set in New Orleans. Remy McSwain, lieutenant in Homicide finds that he has two problems, the first of a series of gang killings and Ann Osborne, a beautiful attorney from the D.A.'s police corruption task force in his office. He begins a relationship with her as the killings continue only to have charges filed against him for accepting bribes as he stumbles on a police corruption Sting. While this is happening, the criminals insist that none of the crime gangs are behind the killings. Written by John Vogel <jlvogel@comcast.net>
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For a film about violence, crime and police corruption, The Big Easy sure is easy going and colorful. The characters are the liveliest bunch of rascals and it's a pleasure to spend every minute with them. Dennis Quaid plays cocky New Orleans detective Remy McSwain, a swaggering smooth talker who's gotten wealthy taking payoffs, a dude whose silky charm matches his swanky suits. He's gotten used to the easy life in the police department, with a captain who looks the other way (Ned Beatty brings a jovial, rotund presence), and colleagues (John Goodman is perfectly cast as the witty loudmouth of the bunch) who are just as happily willing to bend the rules as him. Trouble arrives in the sultry form of D.A. corruption task force specialist Anne Osborne (a swelteringly hot Ellen Barkin) who leans on Quaid as heavily as he hits on her. There's immediate and electric chemistry between them, which she adamantly fights, and he chases like a horn dog pursuing the bumper of a speeding Buick. Quaid and Barkin have the same spitfire sheen to their work, their careers dotted with performances that are flashy yet brave, pulpy yet laced with depth. Here they're having oodles of fun and carry the entire film on their crackling star power and romantic spark alone. There's also a subplot involving a rash of gang killings, as well as family matters involving Quaid's vivacious Cajun clan, including his Momma (monumentally talented Grace Zabriskie). It's a lively hodge-podge of plot elements we've seen a zillion times, but given such flippant style and good natured southern hospitality that we can't help but be won over. There's some lovely live performed Cajun music as well to add extra spice.