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In
this fever-dream of a Western, Leo is a young, hotshot
gunslinger who, it turns out, is also the son of town
boss Gene Hackman, but it was co-star and producer
Sharon Stone who talked him into taking the role.
Stone’s character - a female version of Clint
Eastwood’s "Man With No Name" - is
drawn to the corrupt town of Redemption (run by Hackman
as a homicidal dictatorship) for a quickdraw-competition.
If
Lewis Carroll ("Alice In Wonderland") had
written a Western, it might very well have been this
one. A deft - some might say ‘daft’ - mixture
of genre-cliches and extreme closeups (of Stone, mostly)
the film was directed by shock-stylist Sam Raimi (who
would go on to make 1999’s brilliant "A
Simple Plan"), and is filled with saturated color
and melodramatic intensity.
Directed by
Sam Raimi
Produced by
Chuck Binder (co-producer)
Joshua Donen
Toby Jaffe (executive)
Patrick Markey
Allen Shapiro
Sharon Stone (co-producer)
Robert G. Tapert (executive)
Writing credits
Simon Moore
John Sayles (uncredited)
Cinematography by
Dante Spinotti
Cast
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