Heaven's Prisoners (1996)
- Starring:
- Alec Baldwin, Kelly Lynch, (more)
- Director(s):
- Phil Joanou
- Theatrical MPAA Rating:
- R
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An ex-cop trying to stay away from trouble finds it literally crashing into his backyard in this crime thriller. Dave Robicheaux (Alec Baldwin) is a former New Orleans police detective who, after kicking an addiction to alcohol and confronting some serious problems with his partners, has left law enforcement behind to run a bait shop in a small Louisiana bayou town. One day, Dave and his wife Annie (Kelly Lynch) see a small plane plummet from the sky and crash into the swamp; the pilot dies, but Dave is able to rescue a young Hispanic girl from the wreckage. Dave and Annie take the child in, but as they try to find out more about the plane crash and who the little girl might be, they discover that she's actually an illegal alien from Salvador and that the pilot was involved with a local drug ring. Dave, constitutionally unable to let a mystery go unsolved, begins asking enough questions and making enough trouble that he finds himself on the bad side of his old High School friend Bubba Rocque (Eric Roberts). Bubba is a local crime boss who controls the area's drug traffic, keeps a boxing ring in his front yard, and has a wife Claudette (Teri Hatcher) who enjoys greeting her guests naked. Dave's inquiries eventually become too much for Bubba and his henchmen, and in the midst of a violent raid on their home, Annie is killed. Dave becomes obsessed with bringing Bubba and his men to justice and gets some unexpected help from Robin Gaddis (Mary Stuart Masterson), an exotic dancer with a heart of gold. While it was originally scheduled for release in 1994, Heaven's Prisoners didn't arrive on theater screens until two years later, by which time Teri Hatcher had risen to stardom on the TV series Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Theatrical Feature Running Time:
- 133 mins
Complete Cast:
- Alec Baldwin - Dave Robicheaux
- Mary Stuart Masterson - Robin Gaddis
- Teri Hatcher - Claudette Rocque
- Lenore Banks - Woman Driver
- Joe Hess - Johnny Dartez
- Socorro Santiago - Spanish Nun
- Joe Viterelli - Didi Giancano
- Herman Myles Jr. - Clarence
- Chris Kriesa - Priest
- Tom Burgess - Prison Guard
- Paul Guilfoyle - Detective Magelli
- James Hooks Reynolds - Truck Driver
- Connie Whittemore - Stripper
- Don Yesso - Jungle Room Bartender
- Anne Schedeen - Jungle Room Patron
- Patricia Huston - Nun
- Don Brady - Apartment Man
- Kelly Lynch - Annie Robicheaux
- Eric Roberts - Bubba Rocque
- Vondie Curtis-Hall - Minos P. Dautrieve
- Badja Djola - Batist
- Carl A. McGee - Toot
- Don Stark - Eddie Keats
- Gray Fredrickson - Sheriff Len Whitley
- Samantha Lagpacan - Alafair
- Glenn Gomez - Piano Mover
- Walter C. Bassett
- Chuck Zito - Tony
- Marion Zinser - Apartment Couple
- Jerry Procanik - Patron
- Saul Stein - Dom
- Tuck Milligan - Jerry Falgout
- Hawthorne James - Victor Romero
- Director(s):
- Phil Joanou
- Writer(s):
- Harley Peyton, Scott Frank
- Producer(s):
- Andre Morgan, Leslie Greif, Albert S. Ruddy
- Theatrical MPAA Rating:
- R(Not For Children, Adult Situations, Violence)
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