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Release Date: 2012

Cast: Shirley Knight, Danny Trejo, Peter Sarsgaard, Doug Hutchison, Shalom Harlow, B.D. Wong, Meat Loaf, R. Lee Ermey, Luis Guzmán, Chandra West, Anthony LaPaglia, Glenn Plummer ...MORE

Cast: Shirley Knight, Danny Trejo, Peter Sarsgaard, Doug Hutchison, Shalom Harlow, B.D. Wong, Meat Loaf, R. Lee Ermey, Luis Guzmán, Chandra West, Anthony LaPaglia, Glenn Plummer, Adam Goldberg, Deborah Kara Unger, Vincent Phillip D'Onofrio, Val Kilmer ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Neo-Noir, Crime Thriller, Crime Fiction, Drama Film, Thriller, Mystery, Psychological Thriller, Crime

The Salton Sea is a 2002 American neo-noir film starring Val Kilmer and Vincent D'Onofrio directed by D. J. Caruso. While playing the trumpet in a burning room, the protagonist's voice is heard in narration. His story begins with him posing as "Danny Parker", a speed freak addicted to methamphetamine, who hangs out with friends while indulging in drugs. He also moonlights as an informant for two corrupt cops, Gus Morgan (Doug Hutchison) and Al Garcetti (Anthony LaPaglia). He is trying to set up a large meth score with notorious drug dealer Pooh Bear (D'Onofrio), an eccentric psychopath who... MORE

The Salton Sea is a 2002 American neo-noir film starring Val Kilmer and Vincent D'Onofrio directed by D. J. Caruso. While playing the trumpet in a burning room, the protagonist's voice is heard in narration. His story begins with him posing as "Danny Parker", a speed freak addicted to methamphetamine, who hangs out with friends while indulging in drugs. He also moonlights as an informant for two corrupt cops, Gus Morgan (Doug Hutchison) and Al Garcetti (Anthony LaPaglia). He is trying to set up a large meth score with notorious drug dealer Pooh Bear (D'Onofrio), an eccentric psychopath who lost his nose to excessive snorting of "Gack" (meth), while also attempting to set up a sting operation for Morgan and Garcetti. When he returns home, Danny sheds his clothes and his personality, and basks in his past life as trumpet player "Tom Van Allen". He reveals to an abused neighbor named Colette (Deborah Kara Unger) that he was once happily married, only to watch as his wife was gunned down by masked thieves during a stopover at the Salton Sea. When meeting with Pooh Bear, Danny becomes fearful of Pooh Bear's displays of bizarre homicidal behavior, so he tapes a gun to the bottom of a LESS