Updated June 26, 2020 |
Infoplease Staff
| Director/Writer: | Paul Schrader |
| Director of Photography: | Ed Lachman |
| Editor: | Cara Silverman |
| Music: | David Grohl |
| Production Designer: | David Wasco |
| Producers: | Lila Cazès and Fida Attieh |
| United Artists; R; 100 minutes | |
| Release: | 2/97 |
| Cast: | Bridget Fonda, Christopher Walken, Skeet Ulrich, Tom Arnold, Gina Gershon, Paul Mazursky and Janeane Garofalo |
| Based on the novel by Elmore Leonard |
Finally, a light role for Walken. How many times can a person play the same dark, twisted character? His Hill is twisted, but in a satirically cheerful way. As preacher turned mobile-home salesman Bill Hill breaks up a drunken altercation between a married couple, a stranger, Juvenal (Ulrich), appears and with his bloody palms touches the woman, who is blind. Her sight returns, and Hill sees a chance to make a killing. Huckster Hill enlists associate Lynn Faulkner (Fonda) to woo the stigmatic while misogynistic evangelist August Murray (Arnold) tries hard to thwart Hill's efforts to exploit the faith healer. A perfect cast and an appreciation for Leonard's mischievousness make this an impressive dark comedy.
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