Julie Haggerty pops up in cameo as a gum-chewing waitress named Flo, and if you look quickly you can glimpse Liv Tyler waiting in line at the bus station where Laurie Metcalf sells the tickets.īut what's most surprising of all is the dizzying variety of directorial techniques (or gimmicks) Stone employs, starting with a series of scratchy, jumpy opening credits, to establish a hallucinatory, disoriented mood. Stone keeps it all in motion with lots of little surprises: an unrecognizable Jon Voight plays a Vietnam vet and grungy town beggar who spouts spacey wisdom and wisecracks to the beleaguered Bobby. The laughter catches in your throat when Jake and Bobby dicker over the price of killing Grace ( "You drive a hard bargain" ). Nolte's Jake says, "I'm a man without scruples," and scruples have long since departed Superior, Ariz.
It's all a big, violent joke, of course, and a field day for people who enjoy teasing out movie references except that Stone and scriptwriter John Ridley (working from his own novel, "Stray Dogs" ) press things so insistently that you catch glimmers of a different purpose. The residents of Superior are quite a crew: As the put-upon Bobby finally asks, "Is everyone in this town on drugs?" Everything conspires against him: An innocent encounter in a diner with a ditzy young woman (Claire Danes) invokes the wrath of her macho boyfriend (a nice send-up by Joaquin Phoenix), who will reappear at the most unexpected and inconvenient times. Bobby's as big a goose as any of James M. Stone's game is to constantly step up the pressure on Bobby while undercutting his every attempt to leave town, or even to understand what's happening to him. Grace tells Bobby that her abusive husband was also her mother's lover, and is responsible for her death.Īnd so forth. You know that eventually Bobby will agree to the murder plan, but that things aren't as simple as he imagined. Bobby has to watch his step, since he's caught the eye of suspicious Sheriff Potter (Powers Boothe). Jake quickly sizes up Bobby as unconcerned with matters of conscience, and offers him money to kill Grace, whom he considers a tramp. In a most wildly unlikely incident, Bobby loses all the money, so he can't get his car back and can't leave town. That's only the beginning of Bobby's bad luck. He leaves the car with the town's grease-encrusted, idiotic mechanic (an outrageous turn by Billy Bob Thornton), and soon encounters local beauty Grace (Jennifer Lopez), who is, naturally, burdened with an older, insanely jealous husband, Jake (Nick Nolte in a string tie).
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