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Bad Country (2014)

09/26/2014Drama, Action, Crime1h 35m
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Overview

When Baton Rouge police detective Bud Carter busts contract killer Jesse Weiland, he convinces Jesse to become an informant and rat out the South's most powerful crime ring.

Top Billed Cast

  1. Cast 1

    Matt Dillon

    Jesse Weiland

  2. Cast 1

    Willem Dafoe

    Bud Carter

  3. Cast 1

    Neal McDonough

    Daniel Kiersey

  4. Cast 1

    Amy Smart

    Lynn Weiland

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    Christopher Rodriguez Marquette

    Martin Fitch

  6. Cast 1

    Don Yesso

    Captain Bannock

  7. Cast 1

    Kevin Chapman

    Daniel Morris

  8. Cast 1

    Bill Duke

    John Nokes

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    Tom Berenger

    Lutin Adams

Bad Country is filled with small pleasures. Like Willem Dafoe’s opening and closing narration (few sounds are as soothing as his gravelly baritone). Or Dafoe’s and Matt Dillon’s badass horseshoe mustaches. Or a cameo by the imposing Bill Duke. Or Tom Berenger’s over the top villain (a rosy-cheeked dandy with a Cajun accent, who walks with a cane he doesn't need, shoots clay pigeons, and lives in a prototypical southern mansion). These are some the hooks on which the filmmakers hang a fairly conventional plot; there’s the cop who doesn't always play by the book but gets results (thankfully w...

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