Release Date : 25
April, 1986
Type : Action / Adventure / Crime / Thriller
Rating : R
Director : Hal Ashby
Writer : Lawrence Block, Oliver Stone
Producer : Steve Roth, Charles Mulvehill
Distributor : TriStar Pictures
Duration : 1 hr. 55 min.
8 Million Ways to Die (1986) Overwiew
Starring : Jeff Bridges, Rosanna Arquette, Alexandra Paul, Randy
Brooks, Andy Garcia,
Overview : Hal Ashby’s last film, taken from Lawrence Block’s
novel 8 MILLION WAYS TO DIE, stars Jeff Bridges as Scudder, a
down-and-out alcoholic ex-cop who was dismissed from the force after a
questionable shooting. He’s hired by Sunny (Alexandra Paul), an
expensive prostitute, to pay off her pimp, Chance (Randy Brooks), the
owner of a an after hours club, so she can get out of ''the life.'' When
she’s murdered while trying to leave town with a large suitcase full of
cash, Scudder decides to find her killer. At the club he meets Sarah
(Rosanna Arquette), another prostitute, who has a drinking problem of
her own. Through her he connects Sunny to one of the club's frequent
customers, Angel (Andy Garcia), a volatile, typically psychotic coke
dealer who calls everybody ''baby.'' He’s been using a supermarket owned
by Chance to smuggle drugs. When Angel abducts Sarah, for whom he has,
to say the least, mixed feelings, Scudder must arrange a deal for her
return. The film was written by Oliver Stone with his usual
obscenity-filled machismo. Bridges and Garcia’s confrontational scenes
have a tense undercurrent as they each try to convince the other that
they don’t care about a woman they both love.