Tequila Sunrise (1988) on Netflix
Mac McKussic, a former drug dealer, is trying to go straight. His high school friend Nick Frescia is a detective. Both men are drawn to Jo Ann Vallenari, a restaurant owner.
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Plot summary
Mac McKussic used to sell drugs and now wants a clean life. He runs a legitimate business in a California town by the sea and is raising a son. Nick Frescia, his friend since high school, works as a detective for the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and would have to arrest Mac if he dealt again. DEA Agent Hal Maguire is convinced he has. Mac is drawn to Jo Ann Vallenari, who owns a restaurant he frequents. Nick gets to know her while looking into Mac's activities, above all his ties to Carlos, a Mexican drug kingpin the authorities expect in town. Carlos is pressing Mac to take on one more job, and Mac also tries to help his lawyer sell cocaine.
Cast
- Eric Thieleas Vittorio
- Dawn Martelas Sin Sister
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Tequila Sunrise (1988)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- The famous love scene between Mel Gibson and Michelle Pfeiffer takes place in a hot tub that was reportedly not properly constructed or chlorinated, giving the actors and their body doubles skin rashes and splinters and halting production for a few days.
SPOILER
Director Robert Towne wanted the Gibson character to go up in smoke at the end of the film, saying in 1998 that he was supposed to be a moth in the flame, but one of the conditions Warner Bros. set was that the character must live.- The expensive menswear and slicked-back hair of Kurt Russell's character, Detective Lieutenant Nick Frescia, was modeled on Pat Riley; Russell said Riley's look was right for the film because he was arrogantly confident but not offensive.
- Jay Scott of the Toronto Globe and Mail called it "the Casablanca of the cocaine generation", which Warner Bros. paraphrased in their advertising, with Scott's permission, as "the Casablanca of the '80s".
- Before filming commenced, the actors attached to the lead male roles included Harrison Ford, Alec Baldwin, Nick Nolte and Jeff Bridges.
