A woman (Tilda Swinton), plagued by her rampant alcoholism, tries to extort money using a young boy as bait.
Diminutive Highway Patrolman, Pedro Rojas (Roberto Soza) is small in stature but high on morals. While his Mexican traffic cop compadres are taking bribes left, right and centre he prefers the straight-and-narrow route to law and order. But life on the highway is not as clear-cut as Pedro would like to believe and he starts to stray off course. After stopping Griselda Marcos (Zaide Silvia Gutierrez) for a minor infraction, he accepts her offer of breakfast at the family home and is before he knows it is betrothed with a child on the way. After taking a kickback from a livestock carrier without the correct health and safety permits, Pedro drinks his guilt away in a border bar and ends up in the arms of Maribel (Vanessa Bauche), a beautiful prostitute strung-out on heroin. In the act of arresting two drunk drivers on a deserted road, Pedro is shot in the leg and left with a permanent limp. Soon after, when his fellow cop and close friend Anibal Morales (Bruno Bichir) is blasted to death by heavily armed drug traffickers, Pedro decides to walk tall and take the cartel on himself. Based on the experiences of a real highway patrolman and shot in a string of northern Mexican border towns, Alex Cox's Spanish-language road movie is flawlessly directed. Cinematographer Manuel Garzon's roaming camera floats like a mirage through the desert landscape, tracking the every move of Soza's scrawny but street tough cop. On the DVD: An audio commentary by Alex Cox and his collaborator on the film, writer/producer Lorenzo O'Brien, details the precarious ins and outs of shooting on location in Mexico and the series of real life dramas that trailed their wake. The feature appears in widescreen. --Chris Campion
Three Businessmen (1998): Two lone businessmen Bennie and Frank find themselves alone one night in the dining room of a large Victorian hotel in Liverpool England. Abandoned by the staff of the weird dining room they tentatively join forces and go in search of food - in a city neither of them knows. But restaurant after restaurant fails them. Without realising their destination Bennie and Frank travel half way around the planet via public transport. Prattling on about cred
Though around them a criminal world seethes Julie and Antonio are a young and loving couple with a new baby and a solid white-collar sense of stability. But when a loose social connection suddenly ties them to a major political assassination the two become innocents desperately trying to adapt to a world of murderous politicians and police that moment to moment threatens their lives
Lucky Break: Something strange is going on at HM Prison Long Rudford. The hard men of B wing are going soft. They're putting on wigs and costumes and taking singing and dancing lessons. They've turned Thesp for an awfully amateur production of the prison governor's musical Nelson - The Musical. But all is not what it seems. Behind the theatrical posturing lies an elaborate escape plan. Ringleaders Jimmy and Rudy have come up what they consider a watertight scheme to coast their way to freedom. Honeymoon In Vegas: On his wedding trip to Las Vegas Jack Singer a commitment-phobe bridegroom loses an expensive round of Poker to professional high-stakes gambler Tommy Korman. Unable to cover his loss Jack agress to turn his fiance Betsy over to Tommy for the weekend. Jack realises too late that the game was all a setup to get Tommy close to Betsy who's a dead ringer for Tommy's late wife. Jack must then track down Tommy and Betsy to reclaim his fiance the girl of his dreams. Who will be the lucky couple that gets to celebrate their Honeymoon In Vegas? Watch out for those flying Elvis lookalikes! Birthday Girl: Romantic comedy thriller about mild mannered bank official John who decides to spice up his non existent love life by finding himself a sexy mail order bride! The fact that she's Russian an obvious sex maniac and can't speak a word of English seems to be a good thing. But when Nadia's mysterious Russian cousins turn out of the blue to celebrate her birthday John finds himself drawn into an adventure that he didn't ask for but might be exactly what he needs. Forced into robbing his own bank to save Nadia's life John discovers that life has quite a few more surprises than he bargained for...
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