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Title: Tequila Sunrise (1988)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Mel Gibson | ... | Dale McKussic | |
| Michelle Pfeiffer | ... | Jo Ann Vallenari | |
| Kurt Russell | ... | Nick Frescia | |
| Raul Julia | ... | Carlos / Escalante | |
| J.T. Walsh | ... | Hal Maguire | |
| Arliss Howard | ... | Lindroff | |
| Arye Gross | ... | Andy Leonard | |
| Gabriel Damon | ... | Cody McKussic | |
| Daniel Zacapa | ... | Arturo (as Garret Pearson) | |
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Eric Thiele | ... | Vittorio |
| Tom Nolan | ... | Leland | |
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Dawn Martel | ... | Sin Sister |
| Lala Sloatman | ... | Sin Sister #2 (as Lala) | |
| Budd Boetticher | ... | Judge Nizetitch | |
| Ann Magnuson | ... | Shaleen | |
Mac Mckussic is an unlikely drug dealer who wants to go straight. His old and best friend Nick Frescia is now a cop who is assigned to investigate and bring him to justice. Mac is very attracted to Jo Ann, the owner of a stylish restaurant. Nick gets close to Jo Ann attempting to know more about Mac's drug dealing plans and his connections with the Mexican dealer Carlos, who the police believe is coming to town to meet with him. Nick also falls for Jo Ann's charms and his friendship with Mac is in danger. Written by Sami Al-Taher <staher2000@yahoo.com>
Now after saying that, let me say this. I do not think it is his best movie. I realize he has made much better movies. This movie is flawed but if you look hard enough everything is flawed. The reason this is my favorite Mel Gibson movie is A: Mel's performance, it was very good. Probably not his best but he plays paranoid well. B: Raul Julia he was awesome in this. Same with Michelle Pfeiffer and Kurt Russell. Next is the story. A tale of a drug dealer trying to clean up his life to impress a restaurant owner, but is derailed by everyone else in his life. His brother is trying to set him up, his high school buddy is trying to stop but not bust him, and steal his would be girl. His other old friend who is supposedly the biggest dealer in Mexico is trying to get him back into dealing. His ex-wife wants his money, the DEA wants him in jail, his lawyer isn't really helping and all his kid wants is his attention. This is a character the has every reason to trust no one and still tries although he is usually right and shouldn't. To me this is a fun film with interesting characters doing what should be uninteresting things. True it all ends in true hollywierd fashion but seeing Michelle Pfeiffer looking great in some power woman suits and Kurt Russell looking like a 50's cigarette poster and trying to be slick is fun. Plus the performance by J.T Walsh (one of my favorite character actors) as the seedy DEA agent makes this worth the time.