If you're looking for the truth, you've come to the wrong place.
Danny Parker (Kilmer) is a man in search of redemption, consumed by a sense of loneliness and alienation. Following the death of his wife (Chandra West), he is set adrift in a seedy underworld inhabited by an eclectic, and often comical, cast of characters united principally by their choice of drug: crystal methamphetamine. An accomplished jazz musician, Danny is now a low-life "tweaker" in Los Angeles who leads us through a frenzied maze, one from which he must emerge before his tenuous grip on reality snaps for good.
In a bold attempt Danny secretly hatches a plan to serve as middle-man in a lucrative drug deal. With the help of his friend Jimmy "The Finn" (Peter Sarsgaard), Danny is introduced to Pooh Bear (Vincent D'Onofrio), a deranged methamphetamine Baron with a penchant for sadistic recreational games, who seals the deal. But in this mad world, nothing is as it seems and no one is who he or she appears to be.
While making this perilous journey through the underbelly of Los Angeles, however, Danny reconnects with a tenderness long thought dead as he reaches out to help his troubled and vulnerable neighbour, Colette (Deborah Kara Unger).
Special Agent Matti
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R 18+ (Drug use, medium level violence)
99 minutes (1:39 hours)
Film: Undated 2002
DVD rental: 19 March 2003
VHS rental: 19 March 2003
DVD retail: 19 March 2003