One False Move

One False Move is a 1992/Thriller/Crime film/Neo noir movie co-written by Billy Bob Thornton. The film, also starring Thornton, Bill Paxton and Cynda Williams was directed by Carl Franklin. The low-budget B-movie was to be released straight to home video when it was finished. The film became popular through word of mouth, convincing the distributor to send it to theaters. Film critic Gene Siskel voted this film as his favorite film of 1992. The f... more

One False Move is a 1992/Thriller/Crime film/Neo noir movie co-written by Billy Bob Thornton. The film, also starring Thornton, Bill Paxton and Cynda Williams was directed by Carl Franklin. The low-budget B-movie was to be released straight to home video when it was finished. The film became popular through word of mouth, convincing the distributor to send it to theaters. Film critic Gene Siskel voted this film as his favorite film of 1992. The film opens with three criminals - Ray (Billy Bob Thornton), an immoral and slightly neurotic thief. Fantasia (Cynda Williams) Ray's less violent girlfriend. And Pluto (Michael Beach) an intelligent yet psychotic killer. Ray and Pluto commit six brutal murders over the course of one night in Los Angeles, (spurred by Fantasia's setting up of several friends) all to find a cache of money and cocaine. The trio leave town for Houston to sell the cocaine to a friend of Pluto's. The LAPD start investigating the case, with two detectives taking the... less