Description
Roy Dillon (John Cusack) plays a small-time grifter who finds himself caught between the competing schemes of two women: his estranged mother Lilly (Anjelica Huston), who works for the mob, and his girlfriend Myra (Annette Bening), a veteran con artist with dangerous ambitions. Stephen Frears's taut, psychologically acute adaptation of Jim Thompson's pulp noir novel is a masterclass in American crime cinema—stylish, sinister, and ferociously performed by a trio of actors at the top of their game.