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The Big Easy is a neo-noir film directed by Jim McBride. The Director of Photography was Affonso Beato.

In this neo-noir, centered in the city of New Orleans, Louisiana, Remy McSwain (Dennis Quaid) is a sassy police detective (with a cajun family background) that investigates the murder of a local mobster. His investigation leads him to believe that the New Orleans Police brass is deeply involved, but he can't be sure.

Anne Osborn (Ellen Barkin), a sultry prosecutor, is sent to investigate the alleged police corruption and soon meets Detective McSwain. Since both are hard-headed individuals they quickly clash, fight, fall in love, and finally, work together to solve the crime. The twists and turns never stop in this edgy, steamy thriller.

Quotes

Remy McSwain: If I can't have you, can I at least have my gator?
Remy McSwain: Just relax, darlin'. This is the Big Easy. Folks have a certain way o' doin' things down here.
Anne Osborne: You're a cop for God's sake, you're supposed to uphold the law, but instead you bend it and twist it and sell it. I saw you take that bribe and, and resist arrest and tamper with evidence and perjure yourself under oath. Remy McSwain: Don't forget I ran a red light too, huh. Anne Osborne: You still think it's funny, don't you? Why don't you just face it, Remy? You're not one of the good guys anymore.

Taglines

Between them lies the fate of the state of New Orleans.
A cop and a lady lawyer caught in an explosive truth of police corruption.
A snappy, sassy battle of the sexes.

Trivia

According to the founder of the Sundance Film Festival, Robert Redford
, The Big Easy was the first film ever sold at a Sundance.
The legendary New Orleans district attorney, Jim Garrison, a Kennedy assassination conspiracy theorist who conducted his own investigation into the murder, makes a cameo in the film as a judge.
The film inspired a television series of the same name. The show premiered on the USA Cable network August 11, 1996.

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