An affair between a cabana boy and the young wife of a sinister politician triggers a 16-year vendetta between the two men.An affair between a cabana boy and the young wife of a sinister politician triggers a 16-year vendetta between the two men.An affair between a cabana boy and the young wife of a sinister politician triggers a 16-year vendetta between the two men.
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- 1 nomination
- Randy
- (as Sean C W Johnson)
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- TriviaFilmed at Don Cesar Hotel in St Pete Beach Florida.
- GoofsAlan works at the Don Cesar hotel which is prominently shown in the film and he has a figure of the hotel with its name on it in his room at McCleans in NY. The water by the hotel is called the ocean by many people and Ray Liotta is seen taking a boat to Bimini. This leaves the impression that the hotel is near Miami in Key Biscayne, but in reality it is near Tampa on the Gulf of Mexico (not the Atlantic Ocean) and a day trip to Bimini from there is out of the question.
- Quotes
Manuel Esquema: Everything has a purpose. Everybody has a purpose. It is my purpose to be with Ella. Nothing can change that; not you, not the police, not the courts. It's just a fact. Like... like plants turning to the Sun, or death, or taxes.
Mark Brice: What is this gibberish? Are you crazy? Nobody talks like this. Make sense!
Manuel Esquema: People are afraid to say what they feel. Ella is afraid.
Mark Brice: I'm not afraid to say what I feel. There's two types of people in this world; assholes and pricks. You're an asshole. And I'm a prick. Do the math. Ella's mine.
- Crazy credits[prologue] "It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art". - Walter Pater.
- ConnectionsReferences Taxi Driver (1976)
- SoundtracksForever Mine
Written by Angelo Badalamenti, Julia Taylor-Stanley and James Shearman
Performed by Shana
Published by Anlon Music Co.
Warner Chappell and A&E Copyright
Arranged by James Shearman and Nick Raine
Produced by Julia Taylor-Stanley
But the romantic rendezvous quickly takes a quirky and complex twist. A twist of fate that is not fully realized or retorted in any satisfying solution. The 14 year development and "downward up-fall" of the two main male characters is woefully thin and without clarity.
There is enough sordid side play and noirish edge to maintain viewer interest but ultimately an unsatisfying and ugly ending lets us down in an odd denouement of devilish melodrama.
The some of the parts do not add up to anything substantial enough to sustain what could have been an exceptional picture puzzle. But the pieces do not fit snuggly together and we are left with a rough, uneven surface to what might have been the Writer/Director's exceptional ode to an era of movie magic he loves. But he unfortunately can not, without compromise, return, and so he is stuck in his own postmodern paradox.
- LeonLouisRicci
- Jul 16, 2012
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- Vendetta
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- Don Cesar Hotel - 3400 Gulf Boulevard, St. Petersburg, Florida, USA(hotel scenes at the beginning)
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- Budget
- $17,000,000 (estimated)