The Blue Iguana is a 1988 American crime film directed by John Lafia and starring Dylan McDermott, Jessica Harper, Pamela Gidley and James Russo. The plot is about a bounty hunter who is blackmailed into stopping the transfer of twenty million dollars from a Mexican tax paradise into the United States. The film was screened out of competition at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival.[1]
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The Blue Iguana | |
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Directed by | John Lafia |
Written by | John Lafia |
Produced by | Steve Golin |
Starring | Dylan McDermott Jessica Harper James Russo Pamela Gidley Tovah Feldshuh Dean Stockwell |
Cinematography | Rodolfo Sánchez |
Edited by | Scott Chestnut |
Music by | Ethan James |
Production companies | Cinexacto Films PolyGram Filmed Entertainment Propaganda Films Volcanica Films |
Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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Running time | 90 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Box office | $161,398 |
IRS agents send a private eye (Dylan McDermott) to Mexico to recover money laundered by a banker (Jessica Harper) and her sidekick (James Russo).
Roger Ebert gave The Blue Iguana a negative review and described it as "a smart-aleck parody of private-eye movies, but it knows as little about private eyes as it does about parodies, and movies".[2]
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