Turns out Tyrone brought Erin over from Russia, where she was a piano prodigy, which she proves with a solo. The long delay gives Jack and Erin an opportunity to share secrets. Quarre ( Grace Zabriskie, who was the angry hitchhiker in "Five Easy Pieces"), is along for the ride as they wait in the rain for their passengers to turn up, they make love in the plane, which is more than any of Erin's men can claim. Quarre ( Joss Ackland) is a feisty old fart who has a pipe collection and memories of flying a lot of missions in Korea, and has been signed up to fly the robbers to the Bahamas. To be sure, she left him once before, but "this is how Tyrone says you shouldn't have left," Erin says, showing Jack Friar a foot with four toes.Īs Erin and Jack wait in the house for the bank robbery to take place, the old couple are at an airport. And Tyrone, who trusts Erin to stay with him. More than one man shares that misapprehension, including Hoop, who thinks he and Erin will do away with Tyrone and skip with the money. A gang led by the precise Tyrone ( Stellan Skarsgard) and including the violent hothead Hoop (Doug Hutchinson) is about to commit a multimillion-dollar computer fraud with the help of an inside man named David ( Jonathan Higgins), a bank official who thinks Erin is in love with him. The story is based on "The House on Turk Street," a 1924 short story by Dashiell Hammett, whose work also inspired " The Maltese Falcon" and " The Thin Man." The noir origins are evident in Jackson's resigned, laconic hero, and in the character of Erin ( Milla Jovovich), with a blond Veronica Lake haircut, who guards Jack, talks to him and eventually joins in a scene that improbably combines sex and the art of cello playing.įriar, who was only trying to do a good deed, has walked into the final stages of a bank robbery. So they tie him to a chair, where he will spend most of the movie. Once inside her house, he discovers the little old lady is not sweet, and that her criminal partners think the cop is looking for them. Quarre, a sweet little old lady who has fallen on her steps with bags of groceries. He's assigned to grand theft auto and usually finds runaway cars, but he postpones his vacation to ask around in the last neighborhood where the girl was seen, and that leads him to help out Mrs. Jackson's character, Jack Friar, is asked by a friend to help find her runaway daughter. He is, in fact, looking forward to a week at a "fantasy camp" where he can play with Yo-Yo Ma, when fate intervenes. From "Postman" comes hard-boiled American crime fiction, and from "Five Easy Pieces" and its musical family comes the cop played by Samuel L. FILM CRITIC Bob Rafelson's two best movies are " Five Easy Pieces" (1970) and " The Postman Always Rings Twice" (1981), and his new film "No Good Deed" is like a mingling of their themes.
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