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The Big Easy
Directed by
Jim McBride
R
1986
1h 40m
Drama
,
Action
,
and more
6.5
89%
61%
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A corrupt lieutenant in the homicide division is threatened by the righteous DA while trying to solve a string of mysterious murders.
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Cast of The Big Easy
Dennis Quaid
Remy McSwain
Ellen Barkin
Anne Osborne
Ned Beatty
Jack Kellom
John Goodman
Andre DeSoto
Lisa Jane Persky
McCabe
Ebbe Roe Smith
Ed Dodge
Tom O'Brien
Bobby McSwain
Charles Ludlam
Lamar Parmentel
Grace Zabriskie
Mama
Marc Lawrence
Vinnie 'The Cannon' DiMotti
Solomon Burke
Daddy Mention
Gailard Sartain
Chef Paul
Jim Chimento
Freddie Angelo
Edward Saint Pe'
Patrolman
Robert Lesser
'Silky' Foster
Jim Garrison
Judge #2
Carol Sutton
Judge #1
The Big Easy Ratings & Reviews
New York Times
Vincent Canby
The screenplay, by Daniel Petrie Jr. and Jack Baran, has a number of funny lines and situations, but the end result looks fiddled with by people attempting to ''fix'' things.
Chicago Tribune
Dave Kehr
It's sleek, briskly paced, firmly controlled and shrewdly dosed with humor, action and romance.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
The Big Easy is an extremely enjoyable (and well-lubricated) vehicle for two actors who aren't quite yet stars, but should be.
Los Angeles Times
Sheila Benson
Eventually the film's suspense underpinnings take over its personal story, yet that tension Quaid and Barkin generate still holds. Soldily fine as actors they're also a great pair, like two golden athletes.
Chicago Tribune
Gene Siskel
The film's strength is director Jim McBride's seemingly easy way of presenting us with a New Orleans that is more malevolent and intoxicating than the tourist trap that some think it to be.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
The plot of this movie is only an excuse for its real strength: the creation of a group of characters so interesting, so complicated and so original they make a lot of other movie people look like paint-by-number characters.
Movie Mom
Nell Minow
One of the smartest, sexiest thrill rides ever, with a spicy cajun flavor.
Variety
Variety Staff
Until conventional plot contrivances begin to spoil the fun, The Big Easy is a snappy, sassy battle of the sexes in the guise of a melodrama about police corruption.
People Magazine
Peter Travers
Oooowee, here is one scorchingly sexy movie.
Orlando Sentinel
Jay Boyar
The Big Easy is as atmospheric as they come, but -- surprise! -- it's also sharp and swift. Plus, it has ample amounts of chemistry -- the steamy, sexy kind.
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
[McBride] gets tense, sexy performances from Dennis Quaid and Ellen Barkin and makes the most of his New Orleans locations.
TIME Magazine
Richard Schickel
A movie that manages to be atmospherically rich while also satisfying the slash-crash imperatives of the police-action genre.
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
One spicy gumbo of a detective film.
Washington Post
Hal Hinson
This is one movie that lives up to its billing; it's easy all right. Like falling off a log.
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Bill Kelley
Quaid, a competent character actor who looks more like a leading man with each new film, has all the prize scenes in The Big Easy and he does the best he can with them. But they all seem to be castoffs from old Richard Gere movies.
ColeSmithey.com
Cole Smithey
Dennis Quaid rocks.
Philadelphia Daily News
Ben Yagoda
Barkin makes the silliness with which her character behaves as credible as is probably possible.
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
[The film is] directed by offbeat filmmaker Jim McBride, who gives the action a lot of energy but falls back too often on the usual sex-and-violence formulas.
TV Guide
Colorful Cajun noir, spicy, romantic, efficient.
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