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Miles from nowhere, speeding down the open road, Bobby Cooper's (Sean Penn) feeling good. And why shouldn't he be? On a path beaten by thousands of small time gamblers before him, Bobby's on his way to pay off a debt in Las Vegas. Russian gangsters had Bobby behind the eight ball. All that's behind him now that he's flushed with green. But just like life, when you think you've got it made, something happens. It's hard to believe where a busted radiator hose will get you...
Beautiful downtown Superior, Arizona. This desert mining town, perched on the edge of nowhere, is one turn-off no traveler should take. Pulling into the town's single gas station, Bobby slips through Superior's particular looking glass into an abyss where the seemingly normal meets the bizarre and treacherous. From his encounter with a shotgun-wielding Mexican granny to an unprovoked vendetta from a pathologically jealous teenager aching to get into a fight, Bobby's quest to get his car repaired and get out of town begins to look more and more remote.
And, when Bobby meets up with the beautiful Grace McKenna (Jennifer Lopez) and her powerful husband Jake (Nick Nolte), the one-time goal of getting out of town vanishes in the face of pure survival. Grace and Jake suck Bobby into a deadly game of lust, madness and money. Both offer him a way out -- kill one for the other. Somewhere on the road things go from bad to worse.
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