Red Rock West
by John Dahl
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Actor: Craig Reay, Dennis Hopper, Lara Flynn Boyle, Nicolas Cage, Vance JohnsonDirector: John Dahl
Brand: CAGE,N/HOPPER,D
Writer: John Dahl
Producer: Aron Warner
Producer: Jane McGann
Producer: Lynn Weimer
Producer: Michael Kuhn
Producer: Rick Dahl
Writer: Rick Dahl
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; Spanish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Published), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; Spanish (Subtitles For Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 98 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1999-08-10
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Product features:
- Widescreen and Full Screen versions (Side A is Widescreen, Side B is Full Screen)
- Interactive Menus * Scene Selections
- * Languages English and Spanish * Subtitles English, Spanish, and French.
- Director's Audio Commentary * Directed by John Dahl
- Written by John Dahl and Rick Dahl
DVD Reviews of Red Rock West
DVD Review: "I hate to see an innocent woman get hurt, but it's an awful lot of money."
Summary: 5 Stars
I was surprised at just how well elements of classic film noir worked when combined with those of a contemporary western in the surprising little thriller "Red Rock West," written and directed by John Dahl.
Mike Williams (Nicolas Cage) is a likeable, down on his luck, Gulf War vet looking for work as a roughneck on an oilfield in Big Sky Country. When he doesn't get the job, Mike finds himself down to his last few dollars, with no prospects on the horizon. That all changes when he goes into a bar--looking for work--in the little town of Red Rock, Wyoming.
Desperate for any kind of employment, Mike takes advantage of a case of mistaken identity when the bar owner, Wayne (the late great J.T. Walsh), asks him if he is there "for the job." Expecting a job as bartender, Mike is horrified to find he has been hired as a assassin to kill Wayne's wife, Suzanne (Lara Flynn Boyle). Mike decides to keep Wayne's money but has no intention of honoring the contract.
Stopping on his way out of town to warn Suzanne of her husband's plan, Mike finds her willing to double the contract price if he agrees to kill Wayne. Figuring that he has landed in a nest of vipers, Mike writes a letter to the sheriff and plans to 'get the hell out of Dodge' when fate intervenes yet again in the form of a traffic accident. The basically decent Mike takes the man who stumbled in front of his car to the Emergency Room only to find that the man was not only hit by his car but was shot as well. A world of trouble opens up for Mike when the real contract killer, Lyle (Dennis Hopper), finally shows up. What follows are a series of abortive attempts by Mike to leave town--only to be thwarted by chance and circumstance.
"Red Rock West" has a hard luck hero, a beautiful and bad-to-the-bone femme fatale, and enough treachery, betrayal, layered suspense, plot twists and duplicitous characters to satisfy any hardcore classic noir film fan. The eerie deep shadows of classic noir have been replaced by panoramic views of Wyoming's barren sagebrush wastelands. The soundtrack is supplied by such country greats as Johnny Cash, Dwight Yoakam (who also has a small cameo role) and Shania Twain.
This is a 'no frills' DVD without a single extra. It didn't really matter to me though as the movie itself was so outstanding and the transfer was quite good. Along with such modern day classics as "Blood Simple" and "Kill Me Again," "Red Rock West" is one of the best examples of the neo-noir crime film.
Description of Red Rock West
A man traveling through a Western town is mistaken for a hit man who the local sheriff has hired to kill his wife.Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: R
Release Date: 10-AUG-1999
Media Type: DVD
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