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The Blue Iguana

1988 film directed by John Lafia

This article is about the 1988 comedy film. For other uses, see Blue Iguana (disambiguation).

The Blue Iguana is a 1988 American crime comedy film directed by John Lafia and starring Dylan McDermott, Jessica Harper, Pamela Gidley and James Russo. The plot is about a bounty hunter who is blackmailed into stopping the transfer of twenty million dollars from a Mexican tax paradise into the United States. The film was screened out of competition at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival.[1]

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Plot

IRS agents send a private eye (Dylan McDermott) to Mexico to recover money laundered by a banker (Jessica Harper) and her sidekick (James Russo).

Cast

Reception

Roger Ebert gave The Blue Iguana a negative review and described it as "a smart-aleck parody of private-eye movies, but it knows as little about private eyes as it does about parodies, and movies".[2]

References

  1. [1]
    "Festival de Cannes: The Blue Iguana". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-07-31.
  2. [2]
    "The Blue Iguana". RogerEbert.com. April 22, 1988. Retrieved October 4, 2021.


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