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Running time: 100 mins
In stores: Today
Review: Ewan McDonald
Doug Limon made his name as a young indie director to watch with his cocktail-soaked Swingers. In Go, he impresses again, though this black comedy owes just a tad too much to Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction.
Ronna the checkout girl (Sarah
Polley) takes a shift for her friend Simon (Desmond Askew), a part-time drug dealer who wants to go to Vegas to make the rent. When two customers, Adam and Zak (Scott Wolf and Jay Mohr), want some Ecstasy, Ronna goes to Simon's usual dealer (Timothy Olyphant) to get it.
Like Pulp Fiction, the story involves surprises and connections between the characters, such as Simon's adventures with his black friend Marcus (Taye Diggs) in Vegas, and the relationship between Adam, Zak and a cop, Burke (William Fichtner), who invites the two to Christmas dinner with his wife (Jane Krakowski) in LA.
Fast, fluid, offbeat.
