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Red Rock West
Why this pick
A dusty, increasingly paranoid neo-noir built around a broke drifter, seductive danger, and a small-town scheme that keeps tightening with the same off-kilter fatalism.
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MOVIE1990 1h 54m USA
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Ex-boxer Kevin "Kid" Collins is a drifter and an escapee from a mental hospital. In a desert town near Palm Springs, California he meets widow Fay Anderson who convinces him to help fix up the neglected estate her husband left and lets him sleep in a trailer out back, near her dying date palms.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Jason Patric
Kevin 'kid' Collins
Rocky Giordani
Bert
Bruce Dern
Garrett "Uncle Bud" Stoker
Tom Wagner
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Corey Carrier
Jack
Jeanie Moore
Nanny
James Cotton
Charlie
Michael G. Hagerty
Truck Driver