The Big Easy Page #8

Synopsis: Set in New Orleans. Remy McSwain, lieutenant in Homicide finds that he has two problems, the first of a series of gang killings and Ann Osborne, a beautiful attorney from the D.A.'s police corruption task force in his office. He begins a relationship with her as the killings continue only to have charges filed against him for accepting bribes as he stumbles on a police corruption Sting. While this is happening, the criminals insist that none of the crime gangs are behind the killings.
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Director(s): Jim McBride
Production: HBO Video
  4 wins & 4 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.6
Metacritic:
77
Rotten Tomatoes:
89%
R
Year:
1986
102 min
473 Views


five million dollars worth.

It's a very big pie.

And you're entitled

to a fair slice.

So why don't you

take it and walk away.

You taught me a lot

when I first came on the job.

What was okay,

and what wasn't okay.

Is dealing heroin, okay, Jack?

Is murder okay?

I just wanted to go out a winner.

Thirty years.

Your daddy never

cared anything about that.

All he wanted to do

was chase the girls.

And he caught the best one.

I want to spend

rest of my life with her.

You touch my mother again

I'll kill you!

You can't talk to me that way.

He's gonna be all right!

Jack.

Gentle savior, oh Lord.

(engine starts)

So Kellom has an alibi

for every one of the killings.

Then somebody is pulling

that trigger for him.

Don't you have

any idea who it is?

I've run out of ideas, Annie.

Charity Hospital,

give me intensive care.

Mrs. McSwain, please.

Remy, I still can't believe it.

I can't believe it either.

He admitted it right to my face.

He was all the time

so good to us, you know.

Take care of Bobby.

I'll call you later.

Bye, mama.

(ship's horn)

There's something

you should know.

I had that magnet

placed in the property room

next to the video tape.

A guy owed me a favor.

And you promoted him.

You knew that too, huh.

Before I got promoted,

I used to be a bag man for Kellom.

Just nickel and dime stuff.

You figure it's the system.

That it's not going

to make a difference

if you take a few

hundred here and there.

You figure you

deserve a good life.

For a decent living

for doing a dirty job.

You tell yourself you

can be just as good a cop.

I know.

But you can't.

Anne:
Wait a minute.

Maybe we should

look at this another way.

How did those two Mexican smugglers

end up in the industrial canal?

Came down from Lake

Pontchartrain, I guess.

How did they get there?

A fishing boat, probably.

Where's the boat?

How are we supposed to

know where to find the boat?

Dodge and De Soto

impounded a boat

the night that Freddy

Angelo was killed.

They're the killers,

those two clowns.

Hey, captain.

You're crying all over our future.

We don't have any future, boys.

Maybe you don't.

We've got a plane to catch.

We've got to get rid of this sh*t.

Captain, just put the stuff down

and get out of here.

We're dumping it.

We don't have to listen

to you any more!

I'm not gonna tell you again!

Oh, sh*t.

Just stay here.

(dock creaks)

Ohhh!

Oh, Jack.

Hey, Remy,

where are you at?

Throw the gun up on the deck.

Climb up on out of there.

We had a perfectly good

situation here

And you had to screw it up on us.

You turned on us, Remy.

I didn't turn on you.

What are you talking about?

We're all family, aren't we?

- Can't we work something out?

- That's that old Remy.

What do you say,

what's it gonna be?

Move out on the dock.

I've got to hand it to you guys,

the way you handled that situation.

I mean it was genius.

Real genius.

What do you take us for?

A**holes.

(gunshot)

- You see them?

- I can't see a goddamn thing.

They've got to come up

for air sometime.

The b*tch is over here.

Come on.

What's that?

He's on the other boat.

We got 'em now.

Next stop, Tahiti.

Andre!

Remy?

- Are you all right?

- Uh-huh.

Jesus Christ, it's gonna blow!

Run!

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Daniel Petrie Jr.

Daniel Mannix Petrie Jr. (born November 30, 1951) is a Canadian-American producer, writer, and director of film and television. He is best known for pioneering the sub-genres of action comedy and buddy cop films through movies like Beverly Hills Cop and Turner & Hooch. He served as President of the Writers Guild of America, West between 1997 and 1999, and then again between 2004 and 2005. more…

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