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Crime, Drama, Thriller 97 min R
Rotten Tomatoes94%Metacritic84IMDb
Passion led to Adultery. Adultery led to Murder. It all seemed so simple...
The owner of a seedy small-town Texas bar discovers that one of his employees is having an affair with his wife. A chaotic chain of misunderstandings, lies and mischief ensues after he devises a plot to have them murdered.
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Intimate, plot-driven, bleak and spare.
19 profiled raters. Loved most by The Prestige Hunters; disliked most by The Cartographers.
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Texas bar owner hires private eye to kill his wife and her lover. Joel Coen's directorial debut, grisly and gorgeous.
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