Paris Trout (1991)

Oscar-nominee, Dennis Hopper, is Paris Trout, an unrepentant racist in 1949 Georgia. This is a performance Dennis has described as one of the finest of his life playing a greedy and paranoid shopkeeper who murders the sister of a black man who refuses to repay Trouts IOU. When Trout is arrested for the crime, he is stunned and enraged, a man of the old south. Lawyer Harry Seagraves (Ed Harris, 4 time Oscar nominee) arrives to calm the waters in court, but Seagraves is soon caught in crimes of his own, a dangerous and doomed affair with Trouts wife, played by Barbara Hershey (Oscar nominee). Alls well that ends well but in this film it doesnt.