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Crime, Drama, Thriller
The owner of a seedy small-town Texas bar discovers that one of his employees is having an affair with his wife. A chaotic chain of misunderstandings, lies and mischief ensues after he devises a plot to have them murdered.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who enjoy tightly wound noir where small acts of betrayal spiral into grim, darkly ironic consequences.
- Tone
- tense, bleak, darkly comic
- Payoff
- unease, catharsis
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- intense
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- betrayal, greed, deception, paranoia, moral consequences
- Setting
- contemporary 1980s, seedy small-town bars and rural Texas outskirts
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