Clay Pigeons

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Blockbuster just shipped this out to me. I heard about it from some threads here, so I moved it up to #2 on my queue (still waiting on The Net 2.0, but it has a long wait - it must be a really good movie).

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Genres: Comedy, Crime, Thriller, Drama
Tagline: Lester Long never forgets a friend
Plot Synopsis: Clay (as in the title) is a young man in a small town who witnesses his friend kill himself because of the ongoing affair that Clay was having with the man's wife. Feeling guilty, Clay now resists the widow when she presses him to continue with their sexual affairs. Into this comes a serial killer who befriends Clay, even to murdering the nagging widow for him... but certainly not at Clay's request. But that doesn't matter for the police, as well as for a savvy female FBI agent who sees Clay as their prime suspect. Yet Clay doesn't tell them of his 'friend' who admits to him of his serial killings, primarily because Clay sees himself as somewhat of an accomplice, in that he seems to have introduced to the killer each young woman that is killed... in fact, the sheriff comments that he wishes Clay would quit finding the murdered victims, which he always seems to do. But at last Clay is able to turn from being the pigeon... to giving the film its very unpredictable conclusion.
 
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I just watched it. This was a strange movie, very unpredictable. All the way through, including the ending, which was perfect. Vince Vaughn plays an awesome creepy dude. Great performances from Phoenix and Garofalo as well.
 

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I really liked this movie. Plus, in the first ten minutes it featured two of my favorite bands: The Old 97s and the Refreshments (now Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers).

I also watched this based on some off-hand references to it in this forum. Someone on ASFN (maybe spock?) I thought made a reference to this being funny, so I was expecting a comedy. Wow, was I wrong! Pretty dark and a good exploration of the self-preservation instincts.

Anyways, I recommend it. Netflix is streaming it, so it should be easy to get.
 

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This is one of my hidden gems of the 90s.

"Barney, could you not poke the dead body with a stick? Thank you."
 

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easily one of my most favored movies of all time. perhaps vaughn's best role.
 

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