The Big Town Summary
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Ben Bolt
Genres: Drama
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The Big Town is Chicago, circa 1957. Matt_Dillon stars as a small-town crapshooter who heads to the Windy City to seek his fortune. There he becomes the pawn of two high-rolling professional gamblers, played by Lee_Grant and Bruce_Dern. He later gets mixed up in a revenge scheme cooked up by Diane_Lane, the embittered wife of strip-joint owner Tommy_Lee_Jones. Before he knows what's happened, Dillon is embroiled in two torrid romances, one with Lane and the other with "nice" girl Suzy_Amis; he also nearly loses his life by ending up in the middle of a deadly feud between Dern and Jones. Based on -The Arm, a novel by Clark Howard, Big Town tends towards uneveness, a result perhaps of the defection of its first director, Harold_Becker. Hal Erickson, Rovi
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