John Trace (Stephen Baldwin) is a cop, but he isn’t exactly on the good side of his superiors. That is a privilege reserved for officers who don’t have a tendency to shoot people, and Trace is exactly the opposite. He seems to have this gift for shooting people, and that has him in a certain amount of hot water – for the fourth time in the last few months. It’s attracting the wrong kind of attention.

Lucky for him it’s also managed to get noticed by Lieutenant Laine Devon (Chazz Palminteri), though that may not be a good thing either. At least it will help in the immediate term, for the Lieutenant can help Trace get out of the latest hole he’s found himself in by getting some evidence planted and taking the heat off. But that just lands him in an even deeper mess, for now he owes him one, and that’s when things really get ugly.

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Nicole Kidman stars as UN translator Silvia Broome in this political thriller from Sydney Pollack (who also has a smallish role in the film).

Early on, we find out that Silvia has overheard someone speaking an obscure African dialect about murdering a visiting dignitary. Even stranger, that dialect is spoken in her country of origin, a fact pointed out by Sean Penn, playing haunted secret service agent Tobin Keller.

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