USA,
1991, 99 min
Directed by:
Stephen GyllenhaalScreenplay:
Peter DexterCinematography:
Robert ElswitComposer:
David ShireCast:
Dennis Hopper, Barbara Hershey, Ed Harris, Ray McKinnon, Tina Lifford, RonReaco Lee, Ted Manson, Danny Nelson, Jim Peck, Ed Grady, Bruce Evers, Jeff Rose (more)Plots(1)
Paris Trout is a Southern storekeeper and money lender charging obscene interest rates to the black population. When a black man borrows cash to buy a car from Trout, and the used- up vehicle crashes the same day, he refuses to pay. In response, Trout shoots, without remorse, the man's mother and 12-year-old sister. Trout feels sure that, as a white man, no one will arrest him for the crime -- but he's wrong, and when he's tried for the death of the child, he maintains his innocence, while becoming more and more detached from reality. (official distributor synopsis)
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