Phoenix

Phoenix

1998 · 107 min · EN · R · 5.3 (55 votes)
Dir. Danny Cannon · Starring Ray Liotta, Anthony LaPaglia, Anjelica Huston, Daniel Baldwin, Jeremy Piven, Xander Berkeley · Music Graeme Revell

In this town, the heat can kill you.

DramaThrillerCrimeRomance

Gambling fever -- along with a brutal bookie -- leads three crooked cops into a double-dealing scheme that lands them in hot water way over their heads.

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A grim, character-driven dive into the desperation of men drowning in debt. It's a tense, morally ambiguous descent into a world of bad choices and inevitable fallout, dripping with a cynical, fatalistic mood.

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