A wealthy bar owner uses a detective to spy on his wife who seems to have a notorious reputation with men. When he finds ample proof, he tries to use the same detective to take her & her illicit lover boy off the face of the earth. This simple neo-noir tale of an affair and revenge is spiced up nicely with circumstantial assumptions.
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Language:
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English
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Running Time:
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99 mins
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Rating:
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R
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Release date:
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19 January 1985
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Starring:
John Getz
Frances McDormand
Dan Hedaya
Samm-Art Williams
M. Emmet Walsh
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Directed by:
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Joel Coen
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Produced by:
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Ethan Coen
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Written by:
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Joel Coen
Ethan Coen
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Music by:
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Carter Burwell
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Shot by:
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Barry Sonnenfeld
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Editing by:
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Roderick Jaynes
Don Wiegmann
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Distributed by:
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Circle Films
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What’s Hot
- A movie with a lot of firsts (Direction, Cinematography, Music Score) yet never fails to captivate the audience with its quiet, slow & artistically captured scenes.
- The thought process behind every scene is very elaborate. The lighting and the cuts have been intricately detailed.
- Emmet Walsh adds spice to the movie with various flavours of his performance. Be it an intelligent con-man or a sarcastic alter-ego dressed in yellow or a ruthless executioner.
- The background score of the movie is minimal yet chilling/impactful.
- The twists are all unpredictable revealing the manipulative nature of human mind.
What’s Not
- The movie is high on violence having a lot of blood and killing making it unsuitable for the weak-hearted.
- Across the entire movie, there is no Police investigation or Newspaper/Radio announcements about the death. It looks like there is no justice happening in Texas!!
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