Palmetto ( Dumme sterben nicht aus ) ( Just Another Sucker )

Palmetto (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Dumme sterben nicht aus
Alternate Title: Just Another Sucker
Language Selections:
Danish ( Subtitles )
English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
English ( Subtitles )
Finnish ( Subtitles )
German ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
German ( Subtitles )
Norwegian ( Subtitles )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Spanish ( Subtitles )
Swedish ( Subtitles )

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

Running Time:
109 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (2.35:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 1998 and produced in:
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Volker Schlöndorff

Written By:
James Hadley Chase
E. Max Frye

Actors:
Woody Harrelson ..... Harry Barber
Elisabeth Shue ..... Mrs. Donnelly /
Rhea Malroux ..... Nina
Gina Gershon ..... Felix Malroux
Rolf Hoppe ..... Donnely
Michael Rapaport ..... Odette
Chloë Sevigny ..... John Renick
Tom Wright ..... Miles Meadows
Marc Macaulay ..... Lawyer
Joe Hickey ..... Judge
Ralph Wilcox ..... Bartender
Peter Paul DeLeo ..... Ed
Hal Jones ..... Driver
Salvador Levy ..... Billy Holden
Richard Booker ..... Alda renick
Mikki Scanlon

Synopsis:

When new evidence confirms that he was framed, reporter Harry Barber (Woody Harrelson) is released from prison after serving two years. He then goes on to demonstrate repeatedly that he is the dumbest, most masochistic noir hero since Adam ate the apple. His original plan, to leave Palmetto, is foiled when he runs into his girlfriend Nina (Gina Gershon), a successful sculptor who truly loves him. Unfortunately, he also runs into Rhea Malroux (Elisabeth Shue), a conniving femme fatale and wife of a dying millionaire, who offers him $50,000 for a small part in a phony kidnapping of her stepdaughter Odette (Chloe Sevigny). Feeling that he is owed something for his lost two years, and blinded by Rhea's sexuality, Harry agrees to participate even after he realizes he was set up from the very beginning. Complicating matters for himself, he also accepts an offer from the DA to serve as press liaison on the case. As the kidnapping careens out of control, Harry's involvement follows the same trajectory. His downfall is that he thinks he's clever, but his ability to think rationally is compromised from the start and worsens from there.

After two years incarceration, Harry Barber is let out of prison when it is decided he was framed. He decides to go straight but takes on a job from the young wife of an extremely rich old man. The job is to set up a "kidnap" of the couple's daughter as a way to get money out of the old man for both the daughter and the wife. However, after Barber agrees to do the job, the daughter is found dead leaving Harry heavily implicated in her murder.

After being released from prison on a bum charge, Harry Barber is out for some payback to regain the two years he has lost. He is hired by Mrs. Malroux to fake the kidnapping of her stepdaughter (the daughter of a dying millionaire). He discovers that he is being set up on multiple levels and will soon face a longer prison sentence if he does not prove the truth to the police.

This product was added to our catalog on Saturday 07 January, 2012.

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