One False Move

Tale about three drug dealers on the run, and the sheriff who lies in wait for them., Bill Paxton and Billy Bob Thornton star in this highly rated 90s crime movie. Chief Dixon (Paxton), a local police sheriff from a hick town in Arkansas, stands in the way of three violent Californian drug dealers who have fled cross country from a murder scene. Keen to prove his police credentials against some ‘bona fide’ criminals, Dixon must also prove his worth to the two no-nonsense LAPD detectives who have been sent to help him., About three drug dealers on the run, and the Arkansas sheriff who lies in wait., Tale about three drug dealers on the run, and the Arkansas sheriff who lies in wait., American independent filmmaker Carl Franklin’s powerful and compelling film stars Bill Paxton as a small-town Arkansas lawman sucked into the dangerous attempt to bring vicious killers to book., Carl Franklin made his directorial bow with the story of three LA drug dealers who, after committing a rather messy murder, hide out in a rural Arkansas town. Assuming that the local “rubes” will offer them little interference, the criminals have not reckoned with sheriff “Hurricane” Dixon (Bill Paxton). Despite the arrogance of the LAPD agents sent to Arkansas to collar the crooks, it is down-home Dixon who puts the final bloody showdown into motion (the fact that the thieves have been falling out throughout the film doesn’t hurt things either). Carl Franklin knows where he’s going in every frenetic frame of One False Move, and his movie was one of the most acclaimed independent releases of 1991., Stylish thriller starring Billy Bob Thornton and Cynda Williams as fugitives from the law who head for Houston to try and sell some stolen drugs. Hot on their tail are two LA cops and an ambitious Alabama police officer, who quickly finds the case taking on an extremely personal nature.