The Salton Sea

The Salton Sea is a 2002 film starring Val Kilmer and Vincent D'Onofrio directed by D. J. Caruso. A man (Kilmer) narrates the events of the movie while playing the trumpet in a burning room. He states that previously he was Danny Parker, a speed freak addicted to methamphetamine, who hangs out in the house of friends while indulging his drug habit. He also moonlights as a police informant to two dirty cops, Gus Morgan (Hutchinson) and Al Garcetti... more

The Salton Sea is a 2002 film starring Val Kilmer and Vincent D'Onofrio directed by D. J. Caruso. A man (Kilmer) narrates the events of the movie while playing the trumpet in a burning room. He states that previously he was Danny Parker, a speed freak addicted to methamphetamine, who hangs out in the house of friends while indulging his drug habit. He also moonlights as a police informant to two dirty cops, Gus Morgan (Hutchinson) and Al Garcetti (LaPaglia). Meanwhile he is trying to set up a large meth score with a notorious drug dealer Pooh Bear (D'Onofrio), an eccentric psychopath who lost his nose to excessive snorting of "Gack" (street term for methamphetamine). This is also to set up a sting operation orchestrated by Morgan and Garcetti. But when he returns home, Danny sheds his clothes and his personality and takes time to bask in a past life as a trumpet player named Tom Van Allen. Danny/Tom reveals to an abused neighbor Colette (Kara Unger) that he was once happily married... less