A Linda Fiorentino jag from Dogma. She's even more game here. Directed by John Dahl from a script by Steve Barancik. Dahl has directed a lot of top-shelf TV.
Some-sort-of-medico Bill Pullman accelerates his Manhattan aspirations by augmenting his script selling with the trafficking of medical-grade cocaine. In a minor bout of euphoric frustration he strikes wife/sexpot Fiorentino who shows that getting married has not blunted her perfect timing for leaving her man with what he most values. Holing up in small-town Beston (near Buffalo, NY) she inveigles credulous Peter Berg in a plot to return to the big smoke. Along the way she has some great scenes with knowing city lawyer J.T. Walsh (The Grifters). Dean Norris from Breaking Bad plays a barfly. It's all very amusing.
Roger Ebert: four stars. Diabolical, evil, bad woman! A Critic's Pick by Janet Maslin. Hard-boiled noir. Wicked woman! "Bridget will not be mistaken for a crusading feminist. Her outlook is much too selfishly pathological to have a political edge, and her glamour is too scarily seductive." I also enjoyed Pullman's attempt to keep up. It seems that Barancik was a one-hit wonder; his attempt to milk the cow with a sequel got smashed.
