Honestly, I don't know why exactly but I was really eager to watch this flick. In fact, it is actually a pretty obscure feature but I thought it was pretty good. Indeed, you can definitely feel Tarantino's influence all over it but it didn't bother me though. To be honest, I never really cared much for Thomas Jane and this movie was not different but I thought he was alright. Personally, I especia... read more
Description:A former L.A. drug dealer (Thomas Jane) has moved to Houston to make a new life for himself as a married architect. Everything falls apart when he is suddenly visited by one of his former cohorts (Aaron Eckhart) who comes carrying heroin. Discovering the dope, the architect flushes it down the drain. This sets up a series of tough cusA former L.A. drug dealer (Thomas Jane) has moved to Houston to make a new life for himself as a married architect. Everything falls apart when he is suddenly visited by one of his former cohorts (Aaron Eckhart) who comes carrying heroin. Discovering the dope, the architect flushes it down the drain. This sets up a series of tough customers seeking the dope including a Rasta hit-man (Glenn Plummer), an ex-lover Dallas (Paulina Porizkova) who ties him up and rapes him, a criminal called James (James LeGros) with a penchant for torture, and a rogue cop (Mickey Rourke). Michael Jeter also appears as a psychologist from an adoption agency where the couple is seeking to adopt a child... (more)(less)
"Dr. Jarvis (Right)
Played by Michael Jeter
Humorously passive-aggressive, tight-ass, unlikable adoption agent. He steals the show for his brief role. And yes, he has a erection in the picture."
moviebuff15 rated this 8/10 11 months, 3 weeks ago
“Honestly, I don't know why exactly but I was really eager to watch this flick. In fact, it is actually a pretty obscure feature but I thought it was pretty good. Indeed, you can definitely feel Tarantino's influence all over it but it didn't bother me though. To be honest, I never really cared much for Thomas Jane and this movie was not different but I thought he was alright. Personally, I especially enjoyed Aaron Eckhart who was quite awesome, as usual. In my opinion, Aaron Eckhart is a fine actor and actually one of the most underrated actors of his generation and it was pretty nice to see him in one of his first acting parts. The rest of the cast (Paulina Porizkova, James Le Gros, Glenn Plummer, Mickey Rourke, Gary Dourdan) was also pretty neat. Of course, I have to admit it though, the” read more
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