Tom Reagan (Byrne), indispensable man to prohibition crime boss Leo (Finney), is caught up in a no-win love affair, mounting gambling debts, and to add some juice, Irish and Italian mobs are competing for his unique talents. With everything to lose Reagan plays to keep his hat.
A suspenseful movie playing tribute to film noir/crime noir flicks of the 40s and 50s with inspiration from Dashiell Hammett’s ‘The Glass Key’ and ‘Red Harvest’. The plot is complicated that with a patty wagon full of characters it takes considerable effort, initially, to keep ‘em all straight.
This is Coens’ 3rd movie coming after ‘Blood Simple’ in 1984 and ‘Raising Arizona’ in 1987.
Genre: Crime—Drama—Film Noir–Thriller
Directed by: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Screenplay by: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Music by: Carter Burwell
Cast: Gabriel Byrne, Albert Finney, John Turturro
Film Locations: New Orleans
Els: 8.5/10
IMDb: 7.7/10
Rotten Tomatoes Critics: 93/100
Rotten Tomatoes Audience: 90/100
Metacritic Metascore: 66/100
Metacritic User Score: 8.4/10
Theaters: 21 September 1990
Runtime: 115 minutes
Budget: $10-14 Million
Worldwide Box Office: $5 Million
Source: IMDB, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic, Wikipedia. Graphic: Movie Poster by 20th Century Fox.
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