Scott Caan is our hero, Jackie Powers, who under duress enters a diner to shoot JK Simons who owes a debt to Frank Grillo. Caan messes up the hit, instead shooting the diner's cook and killing him. Simmons escapes. The only witness is a waitress named Lola Brisky played by Marianne Rendon, who Powers kidnaps.
We learn that Powers was working for Grillo in order to get help getting his 16 year old son out of JD. Lo and behold Brisky's mother played by Virginia Madsen is rich and dying, and Brisky can only get her inheritance if she's married.
She and Powers formulate a plan to help each other. Brisky's mother is fond of Powers, and ageees to help, however she passes away before they can get the check for the lawyer. This results in Powers eventually posing as his son's lawyer, with Brisky pretending to be the boys mother, and the judge releasing the son to her custody. The trio decide that they are going to abscond to Costa Rica.
While all of that is going on, we have several poorly written scenes that form a side plot with Simmons and Grillo, over $100,000 that was owed and not paid. The dialog is corny and doesn't really make sense. This leads to a similarly poorly directed shootout where Simmons Is killed and police seemingly arrest Grillo.
This movie has potential. It obviously had some name actors, though they couldn't do much with what they had to work with. It wasn't terrible, but it wasn't quite good either. At least it had somewhat of a happy ending.
..... And just in case you decide to stick around through the credits, don't be fooled by the post credit scene. According to an article I read, it is nothing more than a rehash of an earlier scene in the movie with a local who won a contest acting opposite Caan.
We learn that Powers was working for Grillo in order to get help getting his 16 year old son out of JD. Lo and behold Brisky's mother played by Virginia Madsen is rich and dying, and Brisky can only get her inheritance if she's married.
She and Powers formulate a plan to help each other. Brisky's mother is fond of Powers, and ageees to help, however she passes away before they can get the check for the lawyer. This results in Powers eventually posing as his son's lawyer, with Brisky pretending to be the boys mother, and the judge releasing the son to her custody. The trio decide that they are going to abscond to Costa Rica.
While all of that is going on, we have several poorly written scenes that form a side plot with Simmons and Grillo, over $100,000 that was owed and not paid. The dialog is corny and doesn't really make sense. This leads to a similarly poorly directed shootout where Simmons Is killed and police seemingly arrest Grillo.
This movie has potential. It obviously had some name actors, though they couldn't do much with what they had to work with. It wasn't terrible, but it wasn't quite good either. At least it had somewhat of a happy ending.
..... And just in case you decide to stick around through the credits, don't be fooled by the post credit scene. According to an article I read, it is nothing more than a rehash of an earlier scene in the movie with a local who won a contest acting opposite Caan.