Unemployed Nicolas Cage turn up at a Texas bar and is mistaken by J.T. Walsh for a hitman he's hired to bump off his wife, Lara Flynn Boyle. Then she pays him to bump off her husband. But we know he's a proud man of integrity and so tries to sort the mess out without bumping off anybody. But somehow he keeps getting sucked back to Red Rock, eventually and unwittingly coming up against the real hitman, Dennis Hopper.
Didn't know Dahl or his co-writer brother Rick, or in fact anyone at all behind the camera, but it's perfectly competently shot, edited and scored. And really quite an enjoyably noirish tale in the Blood Simple vein. (Welcome to Red Rock would also have worked.)
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