The interaction of all the characters inspired critics to elevate the film from the standard bloody crime drama.
Star City’s small-town police chief is contacted by officers of the Los Angeles Police Department, who come to Star City. There, the criminals hope to keep a low profile and avoid law enforcement officials intent on their capture. Leaving deadly havoc in their wake, the violent trio flees to Star City (Lincoln County), where Williams’s character had grown up before leaving for Hollywood in hopes of an acting career. One False Move follows three criminals (Thornton, Williams, and Michael Beach) who leave Los Angeles after a drug deal gone bad.
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It was the final film role for Little Rock (Pulaski County) advertising executive Robert (Bob) Ginnaven, who was an actor in several of fellow Arkansan Harry Thomason’s movies, as well as the hit movie Steel Magnolias (1989). Arkansan Natalie Canerday, originally from Russellville (Pope County), appeared in a featured role and went on to co-star in Thornton’s award-winning Sling Blade(1996). One False Move was a low-budget independent film that became popular through word of mouth as well as critical raves from film critic Roger Ebert and his reviewing partner, Gene Siskel, who named it his favorite movie of 1992.Īlong with location filming in Los Angeles and Pearblossom, California, One False Move was shot in Arkansas around Brinkley (Monroe County) and Cotton Plant (Woodruff County). The screenplay was written by Thornton and Tom Epperson, a native of Malvern (Hot Spring County). The director of One False Move was Carl Franklin, who went on to direct Denzel Washington in 1995’s Devil in a Blue Dress. Running for one hour and forty-five minutes, the R-rated film stars Thornton, his future wife Cynda Williams, and Bill Paxton, known for roles in the hit films Apollo 13, Twister, and Titanic. One False Move is a 1992 thriller co-written by Arkansan Billy Bob Thornton, who was born in Hot Springs (Garland County).
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