Palmetto

Starring:Woody Harrelson, Elisabeth Shue, Gina Gershon, Rolf Hoppe, Michael Rapaport, ChloÃ« Sevigny, Tom Wright, Marc Macaulay, Joe Hickey (II), Ralph Wilcox, Peter Paul DeLeo, Hal Jones (II), Salvador Levy, Richard Booker, Mikki Scanlon, Bill Larson, T.W. Terry, Jim Janey, Brett Rice, Vince Cecere
Director: Volker SchlÃ¶ndorff
Studio: Turner Home Ent
Product Type: DVD

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With a foreigner's revitalizing influence, German director Volker Schlondorff turns this standard potboiler (based on the novel Just Another Sucker by British pulp writer James Hadley Chase) into a beguiling exercise in genre classicism. Woody Harrelson stars as a former journalist, just released from serving two years on a trumped-up charge, who is drawn into a troublesome mock-extortion scheme by the scheming wife (Elisabeth Shue) of a dying Florida millionaire. The movie's got style to spare and plenty of humid Florida atmosphere, but it's built on a series of improbable developments and is too low-key to generate riveting momentum. But Schlondorff occupies this tawdry territory with a keen sense of necessary mood and pace, maintaining adequate internal logic and awareness of the story's vintage roots. Subplots involving Shue's stepdaughter (Chloë Sevigny) and Harrelson's girlfriend (Gina Gershon) provide enjoyable distractions from the story's implausibilities. The movie's better suited to the fertile pulp mills of cable TV. But with an absurdly twisting plot to hold your interest, it's fun to watch how Schlondorff builds a bridge between traditional film noir and a more contemporary approach to sultry intrigue. --Jeff Shannon

Customer Reviews:

wonderful.......2007-03-08

perfect, reminds me of manatee county, which is home. all kinds of weird things like this happen in florida everyday.....

Neo-noir with twists that works.......2007-02-17

This is an movie that has the twists to keep you interested. Good casting with an even better atmosphere. You will enjoy this one.

Nothing beats a good murder mystery/con game.......2006-08-28

Part noir, very humid and sensual. I enjoyed this movie, Woody
plays the poor shumck Elizabeth Shue uses to murder her husband and get his money, only it not her husband, I don't want to spoil the plot, but it was well done. If you like twists and turns you'll enjoy this.

4 out of 5 stars.......2006-03-19

Great movie!!! I especially liked the ending. Tastefully sexy without any graphic scenes. BUY IT!!!

Noir Gone Bad.......2005-12-10

This movie is horrible. Good Cast with nothing to work with. If it was to be satire on traditional noir films it missed the point. If it is trying to be a noir film than it is ridiculous.

Shue is particularly bad. Unbelievable as a screen siren. Laughed everytime she tried to be seductive or coy.

Plot completely implausible and even at the end did not tell us who Shue or Sevigny really are. If Harry was really that easily pulled into seduction, the plot would have had him do Odette. The movie copped out in plot, dialogue and scenes. You got to show more skin and sex if you are going to believe the sexual attraction.

Had the feel and production values of a college project.

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