Trouble Bound

I've talked at great length on these posts about great video store discoveries. Those movies that you would stumble across that you knew very little about, and sometimes take home a great little movie. 1992's Trouble Bound was one of those finds.

Michael Madson stars as Harry, an ex con who wants to go legit. When he tells his old partners in crime his plan, they are not pleased and unbeknownst to him, stick a dead body in his trunk. After he drives away, they realize they've made a horrible mistake. They forgot to get a key off the body before ditching it. Along the way, Harry picks up a woman named Kit, Patricia Arquette. She has a hidden agenda. She is gunning after a hitman who killed her mob boss father. Kit's grandmother, Florence Stanley, is trying to stop her because she is trying to make peace with the family that rubbed out Kit's dad. Grandma sends out some of her goons to put an end to Kit. With hit men on Kit's tail and Harry's former gang in hot pursuit, the two have a lot of roadblocks in their way.

This is another one that is very Tarantino-esque before it was really a thing. Madson and Arquette make a pretty good team. Madson with his quiet cool and Arquette with her sweet charm are a nice match. Director Jeffrey Reiner had two very cool, but underreated films in the early 90's, this one and Blood And Concrete. He mostly directs television now, which is sad because he had a pretty promising career on the big screen.

This is a hip movie made even more fun by it's two leads.

It's available on dvd.