IMDB 6.7
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Denzel Washington plays Easy Rawlins who in 1948 L.A. loses his job lat an aircraft plant when he complains about not being treated like the white workers.
Easy has a house, and a mortgage and needs to work. His bartender friendJoppy, introduces hime to DeWitt Albright (Tom Sizemore) who needs help in finding a missing white woman named Daphne (Jennifer Beals), who has been to frequent the black clubs.Daphne's boyfriend is Todd Carter who was a candidate for mayor.
Easy goes to some clubs and meets some friends Dupree and Coretta. Dupree gets drunk and easy spends the night with Coretta who give him some info on Daphne.
When easy gets home the cops are there and they arrest him. Coretta has been murdered and Easy is a suspect.
Easy meets with Daphne and she has him drive her to someone who can help. When they get to the housw they find Richard McGee already dead.
Albright roughs up Easy and tries to force him to continue searching for the girl. Easy has had enough. He calls up his friend Mouse (Don Cheadle) from Houston.
When Easy gets home he is jumped by gangster Frank Green. Easy is in trouble but Mouse shows up and shoots Frank.
Easy then finds some compromising pictures in Coretta's Bible in one of Terell, one of the mayoral candidates, with naked children.
Then we find out that Daphne's half brother is Frank Carter, who is black. Terell was going to use this info about Carter in the mayoral race. carter was going to use the pictures of Terell and the young children against him, and Esy is caught in the middle.
Mouse and Easy get in a shoot out with Albright and his men. They rescue Daphne, and get a payoff.
A movie with a crazy, convoluted plot, which makes for good noir. Denzel, Tom Sizemore and Don Cheadle were really good in this really good neo-noir.
Quotes:
Mouse: You said don't shoot him, right? Well I didn't; I choked... look, Easy - if you ain't want him dead, why you leave him with me?