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Verenigde Staten
Thriller
116 minuten

geregisseerd door Robert Towne
met Mel Gibson, Michelle Pfeiffer en Kurt Russell

In het kort:

Mac Mckussic is een drugdealer die het rechte pad op wil. 
Zijn oude vriend Nick Frescia is nu een agent die als job heeft op Mckussic op te pakken. 
Mac voelt zich aangetrokken tot Jo Ann, een eigenaresse van een restaurant.
Nick probeert haar te benaderen om zo meer over Mac's drugdeal-praktijken te weten te komen. 
Maar ook Nick valt voor de charmes van Jo Ann...

Meer:

Dale "Mac" McKussic (Mel Gibson) is a former drug dealer trying to go straight. His close friend Nick Frescia 
(Kurt Russell) is a Detective Lieutenant with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department who, 
in spite of their long-term relationship going back to high school, is duty-bound to bring Mac to justice, 
if he is selling drugs again, as DEA Agent Hal Maguire (J. T. Walsh) believes to be the case.

Mac is attracted to stylish restaurant owner Jo Ann Vallenari (Michelle Pfeiffer). 
Nick becomes acquainted with Jo Ann while attempting to learn more about Mac's activities, 
in particular his relationship with the Mexican drug kingpin Carlos, whom the DEA agents 
and Mexican federal police commandante Escalante (Raul Julia) believe is coming to town. 
Mac has a legitimate business and is raising a son, trying to distance himself from his former drug smuggling ways. 
But he tries to help his lawyer (Arye Gross) sell some cocaine, and feels indebted to his old friend Carlos, 
who is pressuring Mac to do one last job...