This World, Then the Fireworks

This World, Then the Fireworks (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
Dutch ( Subtitles )
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
Netherlands ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
98 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1997 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Michael Oblowitz

Written By:
Jim Thompson
Larry Gross

Actors:
Philip Loch ..... Marty Lakewood's Father
Elis Imboden ..... Neighbour's wife (as Elisabeth Imboden)
Christian Durango ..... Little Marty Lakewood
Sloan Cobb ..... Little Carol Lakewood
Roberta Hanley ..... Younger Mom Lakewood
Robert Pentz ..... Lou
Marianna Alacchi ..... Glenda
Orson Oblowitz ..... Eugene
Billy Zane ..... Marty Lakewood
Willy Cobbs ..... Blues Musician
Richard Edson ..... Joe
Norman Max Maxwell ..... Thug #1
Matt O'Toole ..... Thug #2
Mert Hatfield ..... Bus Driver
Rue McClanahan ..... Mom Lakewood

Synopsis:

This unusual dark tragedy is narrated by Marty (Billy Zane), a successful investigative reporter who is unhappy with his shy and sick wife. As children, Marty and his twin sister Carol (Gina Gershon) saw their father and his mistress murdered in their home. Their mother (Rue McClanahan) took the children on the road, and they had a tumultuous childhood before finally settling in a small town in California. Marty and Carol had an incestuous relationship, and now they resume it after Marty leaves his wife and job to visit his sister and mother. Carol has been divorced and has become a cheap hooker. Marty soon hooks up with a classy, highly professional policewoman, Lois Archer (Sheryl Lee), who has a secret need to treated abusively, and they spend decadent weekends together at a beach cottage that Lois and her husband own. Marty and Carol plot to get the cabin for themselves after Carol poisons a couple of gangsters who are horning in on her prostitution business.

Marty Lakewood is a reporter forced to leave Chicago and his family because he had uncovered too much police corruption. He returns to his small home town on the California coast to his ailing mother and prostitute sister, with whom he had an incestuous affair. Being short of money, he seduces a woman cop in order to sell her house.

Film noir. Marty and Carol are brother and sister who live in an enclosed and incestuous relationship as a way to protect themselves from the outside world. Marty works as a con artist and Carol as a prostitute. When a policewoman falls for Marty, both Marty and Carol see this as a way into a respectable life.

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