Red Rock West Page #4

Synopsis: When a promised job for Texan Michael fails to materialise in Wyoming, Mike is mistaken by Wayne to be the hitman he hired to kill his unfaithful wife, Suzanne. Mike takes full advantage of the situation, collects the money and runs. During his getaway, things go wrong, and soon get worse when he runs into the real hitman, Lyle.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Director(s): John Dahl
Production: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
  3 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.0
Rotten Tomatoes:
95%
R
Year:
1993
98 min
771 Views


that way. I'll go over here.

He can't have gotten too far.

(Red Rock Bar)

(RR)

(RR)

(Warfield Trucking)

(Liquor)

You're not sending me

to Sheridan to see some b*tch...

with a pissed-off husband. I'm not going.

- Can't get up to Sheridan till next week.

- $20.

MAN 1:
I'll tell you something.

First sign of bullshit...

(Bar)

(Package Goods)

(Cocktails)

MAN 2:
...and in the middle of the night...

Give me the goddamn suitcase.

You weren't lying to me.

(Warfield Trucking)

(Olshan)

(Houston, Texas)

(Lively country music playing on radio)

(Olshan)

(Houston, Texas)

Does that tickle?

'Cause it won't if I pull the trigger.

What the hell are you doing on my truck?

Sorry, boss, I didn't mean to scare you.

Hey, do I look scared to you?

What the hell are you doing on my truck?

- Well, I was just trying to ditch my old lady.

- You were what?

Yeah, she caught me in the bar

and I wasn't supposed to be there...

- and she started sprouting horns and sh*t.

- Bullshit.

Look at that uncontrolled response

to bullshit.

- I hate when that happens.

- Yeah, I don't like it either...

but I just had to get the hell out of there.

So you come out

and climbed up on my truck?

Yeah.

That's kind of stupid, isn't it?

Yeah, it is, but you've never met my wife.

- She's spooky.

- Yeah? Yeah?

You're lying to me. Get off my truck.

Come on, get off the truck.

Oh, man.

(Olshan)

(Houston, Texas)

I'm headed north if you want a ride.

Thanks.

There's a ranch just up the road.

You can drop me off there.

What's the deal, man?

Am I taking you back to your old lady...

or away from your old lady?

Well, neither, actually.

I just got a little business to take care of.

Business?

Is she pretty?

Yeah, she is pretty.

(WT)

Good luck, Spiderman.

Thanks for the ride.

(Glass shattering)

It's okay.

It's all right.

I'm not who you think I am. I lied.

I'm just a guy who needed a job real bad.

And your husband offered me one

and I took it. Before I knew what it was.

- You're not a killer.

- That's right.

No.

But the guy who I'm supposed to be

just drove into town.

So you gotta get out of here.

So, suddenly

my life's in danger again, right?

That's right.

You expect me to believe you?

What is this? Money, you want my money?

I don't have any more money!

Why don't you

get the f*** out of my house?

You're not listening to me.

Your friend the ranch hand, he's been shot!

- You mean Kurt?

- Yeah.

- What happened?

- I don't know.

He was lying in the road

and I took him to the hospital.

- Now pack your bags and get going.

- Is he alive?

- Yeah.

- They know who shot him?

No, he was unconscious.

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John Dahl

John Dahl (born 1956) is an American film and television director and writer, best known for his work in the neo-noir genre. more…

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