8 Million Ways to Die (1986) on Netflix
Los Angeles sheriff's deputy Matt Scudder shoots a dealer during a raid, and the aftermath costs him his career and his marriage. Call girl Sunny comes to him for help.
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Plot summary
Matt Scudder, an alcoholic Los Angeles sheriff's deputy, shoots a small-time dealer during a drug raid while the man's wife and children watch. The shooting costs him his job and his marriage, and he lands in a drunk ward. After an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, a woman passes him a note that names a gambling club on a hilltop owned by Chance Walker and reached by funicular. There Scudder meets Sunny, a call girl who greets him as her boyfriend, and Angel Maldonado, a big spender who is infatuated with another call girl at the club, Sarah. Sunny hands Scudder $5,000 and says she is scared and needs his help.
Cast
- Lisa Sloanas Linda Scudder
- Wilfredo Hernándezas Hector Lopez
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about 8 Million Ways to Die (1986)
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- The Producers Sales Organization fired director Hal Ashby and his editor Robert Lawrence once the film was finished; Stuart H. Pappe took over post-production, and Ashby's appeal to the Directors Guild of America was rejected.
- New editor Stuart H. Pappe deleted scenes featuring Rosanna Arquette and dubbed new dialogue for Jeff Bridges, and had James Newton Howard recompose the score to sound like the Miami Vice theme.
- Jeff Bridges and Jamie Lee Curtis were cast in the lead roles; after Curtis left the film, the producers considered Cher before settling on Rosanna Arquette.
- Because Robert Towne had not finished his script revisions when shooting started in July 1985 in El Segundo, California, Jeff Bridges, Rosanna Arquette and director Hal Ashby improvised many scenes until Towne finished writing that August.
- It was Hal Ashby's final film, and the first attempt to adapt the Matthew Scudder detective stories of Lawrence Block for the screen.
