CINEHUNCH / YOUR NEXT CHAPTER

A FRESH ALLOWANCE AT MIDNIGHT · ISTANBUL TIME

Back to the finderTHE FILM / 1998
Palmetto posterA FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOK

THE FEATURE PRESENTATION

MOVIE1998 1h 54m DEU

IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU

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Its wrong-man setup, remote-town menace, and steadily tightening web of deception closely match Palmetto’s hard-luck noir momentum.

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A sweaty Florida noir of desire and manipulation, with the same fatalistic atmosphere and pleasure in watching confidence turn into vulnerability.

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Why this pick

This languid, heat-hazed neo-noir shares Palmetto’s Florida-like sensuality, moral compromise, and escalating danger around a seemingly manageable crime.

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A disoriented drifter becomes entangled in a kidnapping plot in this bleak, sultry noir, echoing Palmetto’s trap-like plotting and damaged central character.

CURATING YOUR NEXT FRAME

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01 / THE STORY

A little about the film.

Harry Barber is serving time in prison after being framed in a corruption scandal.

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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME

The people who bring it to life.

Elisabeth Shue

Elisabeth Shue

Mrs. Donnelly / Rhea Malroux

Chloë Sevigny

Chloë Sevigny

Odette

Rolf Hoppe

Rolf Hoppe

Felix Malroux

Tom Wright

Tom Wright

John Renick

Ralph Wilcox

Judge

Woody Harrelson

Woody Harrelson

Harry Barber

Gina Gershon

Gina Gershon

Nina

Michael Rapaport

Michael Rapaport

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