Before writing the interesting "The River Murders" script, Steve Anderson wrote & directed 2003's well-cast, small-time-crime styled drama "The Big Empty" in which struggling actor Jon Favreau (always good) accepts (against the judgment of bff Joey Lauren Adams (terrific)) a quick-pay-off task delivering a suitcase to sinister Sean Bean at Jon Gries' desert motel next to Daryl Hannah & Rachel Leigh Cook's bar. But events don't run smooth (partly cos of the pretty ladies involved) - there's murder, the FBI (Kelsey Grammer) get involved, talk of alien abduction even creeps in... AND Patti Smith cameos. It's good enjoyable stuff, and a solid debut from Anderson.
Review of The Big Empty
