Desert Saints
2002 · 1h 28m · R
Action, Romance, Thriller
Directed by
Richard Greenberg
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Desert Saints
Overview
Banks is a hit man, the best, usually working for Latin American drug cartels. He picks up solitary women, uses them briefly for a job, then kills them. He's in the Southwest, headed toward Mexico, when he picks up Bennie, a woman leaving an abusive marriage, going to Paradise, Arizona. The film follows three tracks: Banks's slow recruitment of Bennie, the set-up for the hit at a swank resort in Mexico, and the FBI's close pursuit of Banks, whom they want alive in hopes he'll rat out his bosses. Bennie may not be who she seems, and there may be a chink in Banks's tough-guy armor. Guns, money, and a chance at Paradise.
Director and cast
- Richard Greenberg Director
- Kiefer Sutherland as Arthur Banks
- Melora Walters as Bennie Harper
- Jamey Sheridan as Agent George Scanlon
- Leslie Stefanson as Agent Donna Marbury
- Bill Sage as Agent Davis
- Keith Diamond as Agent Robinson
- Shawn Woods as Larson
- Christopher Bersh as Thug in Black
- Rachel Ticotin as Dora
- Beth Grant as Lou
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