The Big Town (1987)
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- Theatrical Feature Running Time:
- 110 mins
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The Big Town
The Big Town is Chicago, circa 1957. Matt Dillon stars as a small-town crapshooter who heads to the Windy City to seek his fortune. There he becomes the pawn of two high-rolling professional gamblers, played by Lee Grant and Bruce Dern. He later gets mixed up in a revenge scheme cooked up by Diane Lane, the embittered wife of strip-joint owner Tommy Lee Jones. Before he knows what's happened, Dillon is embroiled in two torrid romances, one with Lane and the other with "nice" girl Suzy Amis; he also nearly loses his life by ending up in the middle of a deadly feud between Dern and Jones. Based on The Arm, a novel by Clark Howard, Big Town tends towards uneveness, a result perhaps of the defection of its first director, Harold Becker. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast of The Big Town:
Matt Dillon also in Factotum , Employee of the Month , City of Ghosts , Albino Alligator , Mr. Wonderful , Tex
Diane Lane also in Untraceable , Killshot , Must Love Dogs , Fierce People , Under the Tuscan Sun , A Walk on the Moon
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