White Sands
A small southwestern town sheriff finds a body in the desert with a suitcase and $500,000. He impersonates…
- Director: Roger Donaldson
- Genre:Crime / Drama / Thriller
- Runtime:97 minutes
Cast
Willem Dafoe : Deputy Sheriff Ray Dolezal
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio : Lane Bodine
Mickey Rourke : Gorman Lennox
Samuel L. Jackson: Greg Meeker (as Sam Jackson)
M. Emmet Walsh : Bert Gibson
New Mexico Deputy Sheriff Ray Dolezal (Dafoe) is called out to the desert to look at a body in the White Sands desert alongside a suitcase with $500,000 that was discovered by two tourists. The town mortician (Bert Gibson) is content to have the death remain a mystery, but Dolezal seizes upon the mystery to escape the boredom of being a family man and a sheriff in a small town where not much seems to happen.
They track the man, Spenser, and his last known residence to a local motel. During the autopsy they find a phone number written on paper inside the stomach, and Dolezal calls the number, posing as Spenser, in order to set up a meeting at a local motel in the hopes of solving the mystery. The ruse seems to work, as at the motel, two females attack him at gunpoint, grab the money and instruct him to meet Gorman Lennox (Rourke) at a restaurant. Later on that night Dolezal is also kidnapped by an FBI agent named Greg Meeker (Jackson) who informs him that the Spenser was an FBI agent working undercover and since Dolezal handed the money over to the bad guys, he may as well continue to pose as Bob Spenser in an effort to regain the money or help the FBI make a bust.
At the restaurant he meets up with Lennox and the beautiful and wealthy Lane Bodine (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio) to learn that the money is being used to buy some illegal arms in an effort to fund some left-wing freedom fighters that are apparently being slaughtered by some right-wing militia somewhere in South America. However, the arms dealers want $250,000 more for the weapons, and Meeker is not about to give Dolezal more money, and thus Dolezal romances his way into Lane’s life so that she will attract some of her wealthy humanitarian donors to donate the needed money.
The plot thickens as two FBI from internal affairs start looking for Dolezal, thinking that he killed Bob and took the money, and the fact that Lane knows that Dolezal is not really Bob, but agrees to keep the secret and raise the money because she finds Dolezal attractive, and sees him as a nice, honest alternative to a past relationship she had with the violent Lennox. However, Dolezal suspects that something else is going on and when he attends a rodeo with Lane, he meets Noreen (Maura Tierney), who had an affair with the real Bob, and explains that Bob was working with someone else in the FBI that likely killed him. However, Noreen runs away in fear, (to be killed by the obviously corrupt Meeker) and Dolezal is grabbed by the internal affairs agents, and they are soon run off the road by Lennox. Read more
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