Paris Trout is a Southern storekeeper and money lender charging obscene interest rates to the black population. He often sues people, and so his lawyer, Harry Seagraves, eventually meets Paris' wife Hannah. A former schoolteacher, she made the mistake of her life when she married Paris, who brutalizes her.When a black man borrows cash to buy a car from Trout, and the vehicle crashes the same day, he refuses to pay Trout who then shoots, without remorse, the man's mother and 12-year-old sister. Trout feels sure that, as a white man, no one will arrest him for the crime -- but he's wrong, and when he's tried for the death of the child, he maintains his innocence, while becoming more and more detached from reality. Starring Stephen Gyllenhaal, Dennis Hopper, Barbara Hershey, Ed Harris, Ray McKinnon, Tina Lifford, Darnita Henry. Released 1991

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