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Genres:
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Mystery /
Thriller
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Director:
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Phil Joanou
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Actors:
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Mary Stuart Masterson,
Badja Djola,
Hawthorne James,
Don Stark,
Tuck Milligan,
Samantha Lagpacan,
Carl A. McGee,
Chris Krisea,
Alec Baldwin,
Kelly Lynch,
Eric Roberts,
Teri Hatcher,
Vondie Curtis-Hall,
Joe Viterelli,
Paul Guilfoyle
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Duration:
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126 min.
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Rating:
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(5.4/10)79.5
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Plot Summary:
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Homicide detective Dave Robicheaux has quit the Changed Orleans police division, has stopped drinking, and is living in the swamplands with his wife Annie. Dave runs a bait-and-sheave research in New Iberia. Things are fine until the day Dave and Annie, foot nearby happenstance, are on the whereabouts when a hypnotic smuggler's airplane crashes into the bayou, killing a number of people. Donning scuba kit, Dave succeeds in rescuing Possibly man of the passengers, an El Salvadoran mistress, whom Dave and Annie bring accessible with them. Annie names her Alafair, after Dave's mother. The airlin... er force brings DEA agent Minos Dautrieve in to analyse. And the dull connection brings Dave bad memories from his flair as a cop -- his childhood friend Bubba Rocque is in the present circumstances the leading pharmaceutical panacea kingpin in the area, and Bubba has a seductive better half named Claudette. And Dave's time-worn flame Robin Gaddis, a blond stripper, still has feelings instead of Dave. Dave decides to enquire the airplane failure, but there is someone who wants Dave to keep his nose dated of it. Dave is threatened. The signal that he should brain his own business only pushes Dave harder into the case, and one night, Annie is provocation utter while Dave is outside chasing intruders. Dave thinks Bubba and Claudette may keep had something to do with it, and Dave won't block up until he finds Annie's cutthroat.
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Heaven's Prisoners
Alec Baldwin heads up this thriller adapted from James Lee Burke's novel. An iffy ex-cop adopts the young survivor of a plane crash, only to discover she's dangerously well connected
Alec Baldwin is Dave Robicheaux, a former alcoholic cop now running a bait shop in Louisiana. When a private plane crashes into the nearby lake, Robicheaux and his wife (Lynch) adopt the Salvadorean child they manage to save. Cue a series of increasingly grisly run-ins with a local drugs cartel, which also has designs on the girl.
Phil Joanou is a very capable director and the Louisiana landscapes are beautifully presented. But even he struggles to deal with a plot in which the absorbency of a drinks coaster becomes suddenly relevant. Bad movie regular Eric Roberts makes the m...
Yawn.....
If Alec Baldwin was any more wooden, then you would be able to make paper out of him. Gratutitous nude scene with Teri Hatcher summed this shambles up - There was no need for it, no direction, no story and no point hiring it. Snub this tosh and move on to more exciting things - like changing a fuse that doesn't need changing.
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