"Devastating, suspenseful [and] captivating!" -Los Angeles Times

One of the most original, unpredictable buddy movies in cinematic history, this "hauntingly powerful, exhilarating thriller" (New York Magazine) stars four-time Oscar® nominee Jeff Bridges and John Heard (The Pelican Brief) as two friends locked in a pulse-pounding battle for their lives.

Suspected of murdering a teenage girl, Richard Bone (Bridges), a laidback Santa Barbara boat salesman and gigolo, turns to his best friend Alex Cutter (Heard), a disables Vietnam veteran, for help in finding the real killer. But Bone gets more than he bargained for when Cutter pushes the envelope and, instead of contacting the police, tries to blackmail their suspect...and their suspect, instead of giving in, violently turns the tales on them! Trapped between the killer and the cops, Cutter and Bone begin a cunning game of cat-and-mouse that ignites into a full-blown war -- a "nightmare vision that leaves you bewildered, yet moved" (Los Angeles Herald-Examiner)!