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Clay Pigeons

1998, Movie, R, 104 mins

Clay Pigeons: Review

CLAY PIGEONS
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A black comedy about serial murder, sexual obsession and stifling small-town paranoia, David Dobkin's debut feature is mordantly funny and sneakily chilling, thanks in large part to Vince Vaughn's portrayal of a breezy psychopath. One minute Clay Bidwell (Joaquin Phoenix) is out in a grassy field, picking off beer bottles and shooting the breeze with his best friend Earl (Gregory Sporleder) on a lazy Sunday afternoon. The next minute, Earl is waving Clay's gun around and talking crazy, ranting about Clay's traitorous affair with his hot-pants wife Amanda (Georgina Cates) and promising to make sure Clay gets what he deserves. Earl's plan: He's going to kill himself with Clay's gun, so everyone will think Clay did it. Kill himself Earl does, but in an intensely focused panic Clay manages to get rid of the gun and stage a fiery car accident that takes care of Earl's corpse. Clay's hope is that his nice local-boy reputation will forestall further investigation. Which it does, until more bodies begin piling up: Could bluff, rhinestone cowboy-dressing trucker Lester Long (Vince Vaughn), Clay's self-appointed new best buddy, have anything to do with the carnage? Well, yeah, and anyone but Clay and dogged FBI agents Shelby and Reynard (Janeane Garofalo and Phil Morris), who blow into town and begin hinting that they think Clay is the serial killer they've been pursuing. The whole sorry business has the air of some novel Jim Thompson never wrote: Lethally genial Lester Long (or whatever his name is) is killing cousin to The Killer Inside Me's Sheriff Lou Ford. And Georgina Cates' Amanda is a sticky ball of selfishness and spite, a hellcat so capriciously malevolent that Mother Theresa might have thought about tying her in a weighted sack and looking for the nearest quarry. Nasty fun all around. leave a comment --Maitland McDonagh
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