What is Hi-Lo Country / Dirty Pretty Things about?

THE HI-LO COUNTRY, 1998, Universal, 114 min. Director Stephen Frears, producer Martin Scorsese and screenwriter Walon Green (THE WILD BUNCH) adapted Max Evans novel into this poignantly affecting and underrated saga of the evolving New West in post -WWII New Mexico. Best friends, brawling Big Boy (Woody Harrelson) and introspective war veteran, Pete (Billy Crudup) fall in love with the same girl (Patricia Arquette) who is married to the foreman (John Diehl) of a big rancher (Sam Elliott) gobbling up smaller enterprises. DIRTY PRETTY THINGS, 2001, Miramax, 97 min. This gripping cross-cultural thriller colored with romance and humor is also a portrayal of the harsh life of illegal aliens in modern London. French star Audrey Tautou (AMELIE) is a Turkish maid and Chiewetel Ejiofor (INSIDE MAN) a former Nigerian doctor caught in a criminal web involving organs traffic.

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What is Hi-Lo Country / Dirty Pretty Things about?: THE HI-LO COUNTRY, 1998, Universal, 114 min. Director Stephen Frears, producer Martin Scorsese and screenwriter Walon Green (THE WILD BUNCH) adapted Max Evans novel into this poignantly affecting and underrated saga of the evolving New West in post -WWII New Mexico. Best friends, brawling Big Boy (Woody Harrelson) and introspective war veteran, Pete (Billy Crudup) fall in love with the same girl (Patricia Arquette) who is married to the foreman (John Diehl) of a big rancher (Sam Elliott) gobbling up smaller enterprises.

DIRTY PRETTY THINGS, 2001, Miramax, 97 min. This gripping cross-cultural thriller colored with romance and humor is also a portrayal of the harsh life of illegal aliens in modern London. French star Audrey Tautou (AMELIE) is a Turkish maid and Chiewetel Ejiofor (INSIDE MAN) a former Nigerian doctor caught in a criminal web involving organs traffic.