Palmetto (Full Frame)

VHS, R, 120 minutes, Warner Home Video

Stage a bogus kidnapping, collect a satchel full of ransom cash, take 10% off the top and have a nice life, see ya later. They told Harry Barber the plan would run like clockwork. But-tick tock-it's hapless Harry who's running out of time. Woody Harrelson is Harry, a desperate Florida drifter who goes from prepetrator to patsy when he's lured into an abduction scam proposed by a mysterious blonde. Director Volker Schlongroff ("The Tin Drum", "The Handmaid's Tale"), working from script by E. Max Frye ("Something Wild"), steadily cranks up the strakes as Harry scrambles to untangle a mystery involving three women (Elisabeth Shue, Gina Gershon, Chloe Sevigny), false identities, cold corpses and a string of clues that set him up for a very hard fall. "Palmetto" may look like another sleepy seaside town, But it's a world of trouble for Harry Barber.