Palmetto

Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller · 1998R

Oscar-nominee Woody Harrelson ("Wag the Dog," "People vs. Larry Flynt") stars as a small-town journalist on his way to a promising career when he refuses to kill a story on a horseracing racket. Subsequently set up to take the fall, he goes to prison. Two years later, a free man again, he reluctantly returns home to Palmetto, where he soon finds himself embroiled in a shady scheme involving a mysterious femme fatale (Oscar-nominee Elisabeth Shue - "Hollow Man," "Leaving Las Vegas") and the phony kidnapping of the daughter of one of the town's wealthiest citizens.

Starring

Woody Harrelson, Dianne Crittenden, Gina Gershon, Peter Przygodda, Klaus Doldinger, Elisabeth Shue, Rolf Hoppe, Volker Schlöndorff, Terry Dresbach, Michael Rapaport

Director

Volker Schlöndorff

Producer

Matthias Wendlandt