Top cast:Anthony Gonzalez,Gael García Bernal,Benjamin Bratt
Director:Alfonso Cuarón
Genre:Film-Noir
Region:Lebanon
Year:1999
Storyline:To the sound of the tune "Love Hurts" on the soundtrack (performed by Nan Vernon), a helicopter's floodlight captured the scene of three bodies lying on the ground: Laurie, Michael, and Dr." (The names of the main characters in the original novel were Walter Huff and Phyllis Nordlinger.) Both are duplicitous and callous lovers - a beautiful, shrewd, predatory and dissatisfiedfemme fatalehousewife (with blonde bangs and an enticing gold anklet) and a likeable insurance salesman.His aim was not really to find the Fountain of Youth, but to avenge Blackbeard (by stabbing him through the heart with his sword covered with poison from his collection of dart-frogs).As a result, he earned increasingly high salaries, became a pioneer of the percentage deal (a performer accepted a reduced or non-existent salary in exchange for a percentage of the box office profits), and was the industry's top box-office star by mid-decade.