This sexy, stylish thriller stars Ray Liotta as Ford Cole, a big-city district attorney with his eye on the mayor's office and a big problem on his hands.
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Ray Liotta stars as Ford Cole in this drama about a District Attorney aiming for the top. With his eyes on the prize however, his ambitions are thrown into chaos when his Deputy Nora Timmer (Jolene Blalock), faces a murder charge, claiming self-defense. Into the mix steps Luther Pinks (LL Cool J), who knows a very different Nora Timmer from the one in City Hall. As his career begins to unravel, and with time running out, Cole must sort fact from fiction if he is to have a future.
In directorwriter Wayne Beach's neo-noir thriller SLOW BURN various characters on both sides of the law collide in an unnamed city District Attorney Ford Cole (Ray Liotta) is campaigning to become mayor but his assistant DA and lover Nora Timmer (a sultry Jolene Blalock best known for her stint on the STAR TREK series ENTERPRISE) finds herself implicated in the murder of a record-store employee (Mekhi Phifer) seriously jeopardising her boss bid As evidence about the incident comes to light other suspects surface including the mysterious Luther Pinks (LL Cool J) along with a determined reporter (Chiwetel Ejiofor) creating a complex web of deceit Filmed in 2003 but not officially released until 2007 SLOW BURN may have best been showcased as a TV movie but its considerable star power (Liotta Smith etc) helps to elevate it above similar small-screen fare Beach is a veteran screenwriter (with THE ART OF WAR and MURDER AT 1600 both starring Wesley Snipes on his resume) Beach clearly knows how to set up a suspenseful mystery and his impressive cast (which includes always-outstanding character actors Ejiofor and Bruce McGill) gamely follows his twists and turns Although the movie is heavily indebted to THE USUAL SUSPECTS it stands on its own as a decent if convoluted crime drama
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