Palmetto (1998)

Name: Palmetto
Director: Volker Schlöndorff
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Released: 1998
Duration: 1 h 54 min
Rating: 6
Cast: Chloë Sevigny, Elisabeth Shue, Gina Gershon, Joe Hickey, Mal Jones

Crime Mystery Thriller

6.0 (148 votes)

1h 54m

Overview

After spending two years in prison, framed for accepting a bribe, former newspaper reporter Harry Barber is released, bitter and disillusioned. Feeling like he were owed something for his loss of time, he proceeds to get himself involved in a simple kidnapping plot which turns out to be more complex than he imagined.

Details

Director: Volker Schlöndorff
Writer: E. Max Frye
Original Language: English
Budget: N/A

Cast

Chloë Sevigny Elisabeth Shue Gina Gershon Joe Hickey Mal Jones Marc Macaulay Michael Rapaport Mikki Scanlon Peter Paul DeLeo Ralph Wilcox Richard Booker Rolf Hoppe Salvador Levy Tom Wright Woody Harrelson

Keywords

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