* Sin City 1: Basin City Blues (2005)
Frank Miller's Sin City
8.0 Rating
124 min
An exploration of the dark and miserable Basin City and three of its residents, all of whom are caught up in violent corruption.
Welcome to Sin City. This town beckons to the tough, the corrupt, the brokenhearted. Some call it darkā¦ Hard-boiled. Then there are those who call it home ... Crooked cops, sexy dames, desperate vigilantes. Some are seeking revenge, others lust after redemption and then there are those hoping for a little of both. A universe of unlikely and reluctant heroes still trying to do the right thing in a city that refuses to care.
"The Customer Is Always Right (Part I)"
The Salesman walks onto a penthouse balcony where The Customer looks out over Basin City. He offers her a cigarette and says that she looks like someone who is tired of running and that he will save her. The two share a kiss and he shoots her; she dies in his arms. He says he will never know what she was running from but that he will cash her check in the morning.
"That Yellow Bastard (Part I)"
On the docks of Sin City, aging police officer John Hartigan tries to stop serial child-killer Roark Junior from raping and killing his fourth known victim, eleven-year-old Nancy Callahan. Junior is the son of Senator Roark, who has bribed Hartigan's corrupt partner, Bob, to cover up his son's crimes. Bob tries to persuade Hartigan to walk away; Hartigan knocks him out.
"The Hard Goodbye"
about an ex-convict who embarks on a rampage in search of his one-time sweetheart's killer.
"The Big Fat Kill"
follows a private investigator who gets caught in a street war between a group of prostitutes and a group of mercenaries, the police and the mob.
"That Yellow Bastard (Part II)"
focuses on an aging police officer who protects a young woman from a grotesquely disfigured serial killer.
The intro and outro of the film are based on the short story
"The Customer is Always Right"
which is collected in Booze, Broads & Bullets, the sixth book in the comic series.
Country: United States
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller, Anthology
Release: Apr 01, 2005
Based on: Sin City by Frank Miller
Director: Robert Rodriguez, Frank Miller, Quentin Tarantino
Production: Dimension Films, Troublemaker Studios
Cast:
Jessica Alba as Nancy Callahan
Makenzie Vega as Nancy (age 11)
Devon Aoki as Miho
Alexis Bledel as Becky
Powers Boothe as Senator Ethan Roark
Jude Ciccolella as Commissioner Liebowitz
Rosario Dawson as Gail
Benicio del Toro as Lieutenant Jack "Iron Jack" Rafferty / "Jackie Boy"
Michael Clarke Duncan as Manute
Rick Gomez as Douglas Klump
Carla Gugino as Lucille
Josh Hartnett as The Salesman
Rutger Hauer as Cardinal Patrick Henry Roark
Nicky Katt as Stuka
Jaime King as Goldie and Wendy
Michael Madsen as Detective Bob
Clark Middleton as Schutz
Brittany Murphy as Shellie
Nick Offerman as Burt Schlubb
Clive Owen as Dwight McCarthy
Mickey Rourke as Marv
Marley Shelton as The Customer
Nick Stahl as Ethan Roark Jr.
Scott Teeters as Lenny and Benny
Patricia Vonne as Dallas
Bruce Willis as Detective John Hartigan
Elijah Wood as Kevin
Tommy Flanagan as Brian
Lisa Marie Newmyer as Tammy
Frank Miller as a priest
Robert Rodriguez as a member of the SWAT team