The Blue Iguana
1988 film directed by John Lafia
- April 22, 1988 (1988-04-22)
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The Blue Iguana is a 1988 American crime comedy 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]
Plot
IRS agents send a private eye (Dylan McDermott) to Mexico to recover money laundered by a banker (Jessica Harper) and her sidekick (James Russo).
Cast
- Dylan McDermott as Vince Holloway
- Jessica Harper as Cora
- James Russo as Reno
- Pamela Gidley as Dakota
- Yano Anaya as Yano
- Flea as Floyd
- Michele Seipp as Zoe 'The Bartender'
- Tovah Feldshuh as Detective Vera Quinn
- Dean Stockwell as Detective Carl Strick
- Katia Schkolnik as Mona
- John Durbin as Louie Sparks
- Eliett as Veronica
- Don Pedro Colley as Boat Captain
- Pedro Altamirano as Rubberhead
- Benny Corral as Roy
Reception
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]
References
External links
- The Blue Iguana at IMDb
- The Blue Iguana at AllMovie
- The Blue Iguana at Box Office Mojo
- The Blue Iguana at Rotten Tomatoes
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Films directed by John Lafia
- The Blue Iguana (1988)
- Child's Play 2 (1990)
- Man's Best Friend (1993)
- Chameleon 3: Dark Angel (2000)
- The Rats (2002)
- 10.5 (2004)
- 10.5: Apocalypse (2006)
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